In brief
- OpenAI says its AI has proven that ETH is false—but it’s not the “ETH” crypto traders are thinking about.
- The company says its AI models have found a way to disprove the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a computer-science conjecture from 1999.
- Here’s what all that means, and what mathematicians are doing about it.
OpenAI says ETH is false, and Crypto Twitter reacted exactly the way you would expect. “Damn algo traders just slaughtered $ETH,” a user called Takumi posted on X, while Andrew Jiang quipped: “Vitalik has been real quiet since this came out.”
But chill out, degens, the ETH in question is the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a computer-science conjecture from 1999 that has nothing to do with Ethereum, its…
