How fud goes in crypto:
- It lands when coins already wanted to roll over. The chart was weak and the fud takes the blame.
- The most potent fud is the kind nobody can verify. Right now no one can tell you whether AI can break elliptic curves, or when. You can't prove it. You can't rule it out either. That's what gives it legs.
- The shock hits. People panic and timelines fill up with worst case engagement farming.
- Over the next few days the sensible takes arrive. Logic wins and the world doesn't end.
- Price ends up where it was going anyway. The only real change is that people who blasted the highs capitulate.
None of this means the risk is zero. It means the market reaction follows a script, and the script tells you almost nothing about the risk itself.
The sensible take is that the same maths secures the whole internet. Banking, messaging, every HTTPS connection. If a break were imminent, the people with the best information would be in emergency mode. They're not.