The crypto bros are worried AI could come for their blockchain wallets.

The crypto-clutching began when Justin Drake, a researcher at the blockchain platform Ethereum, said on X on Wednesday that people holding the digital currency should plan to enter “bunker mode” by moving their funds to fresh addresses.

Drake cited the proclivity of OpenAI models to solve thought-to-be-impossible math problems — a development he said hackers might one day use to derive private keys from public keys of blockchain wallets, which are usually protected by mathematical computation.

“Yesterday’s OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us,” Drake said in reference to the ChatGPT maker…