Cryptographer Justin Drake Warns ECDSA Could Be Broken Within Months

Drake's warning reframes the ECDSA threat as a classical-computing problem accelerated by AI, not a distant quantum one, which compresses the timeline the industry has been planning around. The practical exposure sits with addresses whose public keys are already visible on-chain through prior signing, a structural feature of most long-lived wallets. His "bunker mode" framing — unhurried, but premised on moving funds to never-used addresses — suggests the mitigation is available now rather than contingent on a future protocol fix. Whether the wider ecosystem treats this as a planning prompt or dismisses it as alarmism is the open question.