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

On Friday, Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao said AI does not need to crack Bitcoin’s cryptography to cause serious harm, saying phishing and social engineering involving leaked data are the weak link. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has expressed similar confidence that AI will not break blockchain cryptography and says he keeps most of his wealth in crypto. Bitcoin Core developer Antoine Poinsot said in a Thursday email that large language models make some bugs easy to rediscover, so the software will ship fixes for flaws tagged easily discoverable across every maintained version as fast as possible, with an advisory. Other flaws keep severity-based timelines, and critical bugs fall outside standard rules.