🚨HUGE: Bitcoin's biggest existential threat just got its first official defense. A quantum computer cracking Bitcoin's cryptography is the network's ultimate doomsday scenario. StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy just locked real BTC in storage the company says no quantum computer can open. Here's what makes it historic: - No fork, no upgrade needed - Runs on Bitcoin's existing rules - Live on mainnet, block 964,199 - Each spend costs $75 to $200 in GPU compute Over 6 MILLION BTC, 30% of supply, is still quantum-exposed, per Glassnode.

I feel like the biggest existential threat to humanity will be an AI driven worm virus that will threaten to obliterate all critical systems on earth including data centers. This will be worse than the Covid crisis. Nothing will be able to stop it. Max shorts will infinite print.

Remember when climate change was the "existential threat" against our world, and we were all told we had to use LESS ENERGY to save the planet? And now, all that has been tossed in the garbage, and we're told we need to build more AI data centers and use MORE ENERGY to save the world? So yeah, it's all bullshit, all the time. Guess what both of these narratives have in common? Mass extermination of humanity, of course. First, they wanted to halt human economic activity and growth by making energy and food more scarce and expensive. Now, they just want to build all the AI algos and machines that will replace you or even eventually hunt you down and terminate you. When you see the real thread running through all this -- depopulation -- suddenly it makes sense.

The populist surge has become an existential threat to the establishment – and its answer is ever-more authoritarian measures to control what we can read, see and say, argues Jacob Reynolds.

Have been thru so many "existential threat" moments in crypto, every time the ride is getting less existential - First shock: Mt Gox. I was so stunned didnt even feel it. My net worth in crypto wasnt huge in absolute terms, still massive for a fresh grad - Second grill: the Bitfinex hack. Thought it was the end. Instead, the redemption token + creditor unity became an epic kind of birth story for Tether - Post-ICO annihilation: the worst pain. Net worth down bad. Learned the hard lesson on alts, and started Primitive Ventures deep in the 2018 bear - March 2020: the most intense. If BitMEX hadn’t unplugged, we might’ve been cooked as an industry. But mentally it hurt less because the 2018- 2019 grind and later global Covid escape exp trained my brain for the new baseline of chaos - 2022 FTX collapse: insane, cinematic. We pulled funds when we started smelling smoke around SBF so dodged that bullet. and it reinforced a lesson I keep re-learning: founders leak signal constantly if you know how to read behavior Every cycle leaves scar tissue. And in crypto, scar tissue becomes anti fragility: better priors, faster reflexes, cleaner counterparty rules. Crypto people have front run a lot of the big socioeconomic shifts: fighting bot farms before “AI” was mainstream; demanding data sovereignty before prompt injection and narrative manipulation by llms. become opsec paranoid and off the grid knowing the future of surveillance state. We also got a high potent dose of human incentive loopholes and behavioral bias injected into our vein so that we learned the hard way early There's no compression algorithm for experience. Time is the only leverage nobody can liquidate. See you on the other side of this one, fellow life soldiers.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang rejects warnings that artificial intelligence could pose an existential threat to humanity in the near future, calling that narrative “completely false” and “not grounded on science.” “All the messaging around the drama of it is unnecessary,” Huang tells CBS News’ @jolingkent. But he adds that underlying concerns about AI safety are “not wrong.”

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is pushing back on warnings that artificial intelligence could soon pose an existential threat to humanity if left unchecked, arguing instead for accelerating the technology’s development. Huang, whose company makes the chips powering many of the world’s leading AI systems, speaks with CBS News’ @jolingkent about the debate over AI’s risks.