If an AI system were to ever successfully attack or otherwise disrupt the cryptography of a respected blockchain – even in a white hat research setting – every panic sell-off crypto has seen before that moment would feel small. If a quantum computer ever broke a blockchain, we might as well all close down shop. The point of blockchains would be permanently undermined.
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