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Ethereum researcher Justin Drake warned that ECDSA could break before Q-Day, possibly in months.

Alex Pruden of Project Eleven tells Laura Shin why new error-correction results from Google and Quantinuum push him toward the earlier end of his Q-Day window, 2030 at the earliest and 2033 to 2035 as more likely than not, while Conor Deegan argues “A-Day” for AI may already be here and that the post-quantum and post-AI migrations are the same work.

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    • Laura Shin – Founder, CEO and Host of Unchained

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This clip is from a longer conversation on whether AI could break the cryptography securing blockchains before quantum computers do. Full episode here.

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