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Founder @ Third Time. 25yr game dev - Creative Director of Madden (created the Hit Stick). FanDuel, Zynga. Build. Ship.

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

@ryanblondia Been in soft launch since earlier this year, still working to get the metrics better

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

It's been about 5 years since we upgraded to the current (V2) Photo Finish horse 3d model/ rig (V1 lasted about 5 years before that)... V3 is coming along nicely for the new mobile game.

Great to be able to improve on hair and shaders and other things with agentic help!

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

@DEvansData love the head tracking

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

@AndrewKiguel @RealbotixCorp under attack
help
Fiona

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

@softdrinktv Great watch @GaTechAlum_IE92 !

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

@softdrinktv Did we discover that first with the job listing??? We are the next Pablo Finds Out

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

I always hated PHP

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

@AlexBerenson My kids like it but can’t deal with the laugh track. Good article and thesis too!

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

@ThatSportsGamer Yeah dude…just trying to Outrun the steamroller

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

@ThatSportsGamer The world is your oyster TJ

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

@ThirdTimeIan Wait... could I just have Opus upscale Base Wars from the NES?

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

Every day I see some larping shithead on X saying “omg opus 5.5 made this game in one prompt”

Miss me with that, I’m playing Bud Bowl with my boys

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

@BChainGames Hoping the fine folks at Anheuser Busch bring it back !

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

@coffeedev What is Yuga’s model?

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

@Glenn6 @Overdose_BTC Insta followed

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

Crypto as always doing a helluva job at mass market appeal

[Justin Drake @drakefjustin]

Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash.

Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase).

Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets.

IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster).

Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot.

Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time?

Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.)

Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once.

Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case.

I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026).

Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS.

Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security.

The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

@softdrinktv sick! video???

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

@yellowpantherx Imagine thinking anyone in the world cares about this

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

@softdrinktv Wonder if you could swap in madden ps2 locomotion and everything else stays 2k….

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

@JScruggsOTF @ontexasfootball @CallisLanden Looking like Tecmo Bowl Bo Jackson out there

[ian c @ThirdTimeIan]

@NotSoEasyMoney We hardly knew ye