evan@id

Building stuff. Currently at Discord, prev Gemini.

[Brad Gerstner @altcap]

Heart attacks are the #1 killer & almost totally avoidable! Early detection of plaque is key. Over 35 - get your CAC scan for $150 & 15 mins. Working closely w @American_Heart to make CACs more standard & accessible! Big changes coming that will save 1000s of lives. 🇺🇸 ❤️🤍

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Andrew McCarthy in The National Review on what caused the Republicans to lose so badly in the midterms.

[evan@id @evbots]

@_SchusterDev The top of the ticket in 24 was kind of a mess.

[Brad Hargreaves @bhargreaves]

Some dude in California running a 3-person company got voters to give him $4.2 billion by authoring a ballot measure, which passed

[evan@id @evbots]

@SawyerHackett cant wait for the hanging chads drama 🍿

[evan@id @evbots]

@SawyerHackett 40 votes is crazy

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Trump: Vote like I'm on the ballot.

America: Okay.

[evan@id @evbots]

llms are alien intelligence

[Jack Bridger @jacksbridger]

The sort of thing your agent writes tests for

[sarah guo @saranormous]

the most important enabling belief is that you can learn anything - a domain, a behavior, etc.

[Swan @AndySwan]

5 years ago: Starlink is such a stupid idea. Anyone wasting money investing in this Musk scam deserves to lose everything.

Today: Starlink is essential to the defense of an invaded nation. Access to Starlink is a human right! Nationalize it!

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

This really is one of @BillMaher’s best-ever monologues, and I don’t say that just because I got a namecheck. Tldr: Socialism is what old people already get and young people want a piece of it.

[evan@id @evbots]

@BuddyLindsey @boneGPT 💯

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Before it became possible to get rich by creating wealth, the way to do it was to be on the winning side in a military or political dispute.

[evan@id @evbots]

@gcockfoster Yes the sf version of drunk history

[Peer Richelsen @peer_rich]

changing from .ai to .si under trump is like putting your pronouns into your bio under biden

[evan@id @evbots]

@thogge @nikitabier Do you guys have EoE? Not a fun condition

[cozy @cozymaximalist]

"I do think there's a chance elliptic curve cryptography just stops working."

[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.

[evan@id @evbots]

@iam_preethi the lining in canned foods is plastic?