Justin Drake, Vitalik Buterin Debate AI Cryptography Risk and Migration Timing

The split is less about whether AI threatens elliptic curve cryptography than about how to act under uncertainty. Drake frames the risk as a timing problem, where waiting for proof of a break leaves no room to migrate; Buterin frames premature migration as its own source of loss, since moving assets and signatures carries real exposure. The practical takeaway is that the industry has no shared trigger for when urgency becomes justified, and whether that gap gets resolved — through better evidence or a coordinated migration path — is the open question.