Ryan Sean Adams

It's almost the framing of this is almost like Bitcoin has some flaws from a security budget perspective, from a quantum perspective.

And Ethereum is going to be here to kind of lead crypto after, you know, if Bitcoin can't get past some of these flaws.

Justin, when we were talking about these three compute technologies, it does feel like the one that sticks out is AI.

And you were talking about 2032 being sort of maybe an AGI type moment.

One just general question I have is, as you are a human, an extremely talented cryptographer,

extremely intelligent, particularly within your domain, but you are not an AGI.

You are not artificial general intelligence.

And the concern is, as we enter into that computing singularity, that all bets are off when it comes to AGI.

Like all of the well-laid plans we make in 2026 to have our blockchains be quantum resistant and

What if AGI just figures out how to crack our quantum-resistant cryptography in some other way?

As a cryptographer, are you worried about the unknown unknowns of artificial general intelligence and the things that it could crack?

What if we're prepared for this quantum world, post-quantum world, but we're not prepared

for a post-AGI world.

I love that you're thinking about that.

And it does sound like your work on Ethereum gives you meaning.

I have another question on that.

So being obviously a huge fan of Ethereum, David and myself, one of the worries I actually have if kind of the AI destiny comes true is like,

At some level, yes, it's a defensive accelerationist technology.

It's decentralized.

It's kind of permissionless.