CZ and Vitalik downplay AI crypto threat as Bitcoin Core rewrites bug rules

Changpeng Zhao (CZ) does not believe AI needs to actually crack Bitcoin’s cryptography to cause harm, the Binance founder and former CEO said on Friday. Those comments came just as Bitcoin Core revised the plan on how it will disclose bugs in the AI era. Last month, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared similar sentiments when he evaluated the security status of the math behind Bitcoin’s cryptography against AI capabilities. CZ: AI doesn’t need to crack Bitcoin’s math CZ, in his X post early on Friday, made two points in his evaluation of how AI can disrupt crypto security and cause serious harm. On the one hand, CZ is confident that the encryption securing Bitcoin is tougher than similar infrastructure behind the internet and most banking systems.

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