Ethereum Researchers Split Over ‘Bunker Mode’ Amid AI Threat to Crypto Keys

The split is less about a concrete vulnerability than about how the ecosystem prices a long-horizon, unproven threat: one camp treats precautionary migration as cheap insurance, the other warns that acting on speculation can itself be destabilizing. It matters because the disagreement runs through Ethereum's most influential voices, and any coordinated response would touch every self-custody holder, not just developers. The open question is whether this stays a philosophical debate or hardens into a concrete proposal — and whether AI-driven math advances ever produce evidence specific enough to justify one.