AI Cracked a Nazi Code. Crypto Twitter Panicked for Nothing.

BitcoinWorld AI Cracked a Nazi Code. Crypto Twitter Panicked for Nothing. Key Takeaways An AI just broke a German Enigma message from 1941 that nobody had solved in 83 years. It took about ten hours. A guy who is not a cryptographer ran the whole thing. Your Bitcoin is fine.

Enigma and Bitcoin’s encryption are not in the same universe. The scary part is not codebreaking. It is that AI can now do full research jobs on its own.   On 10 July 1941, a German soldier sent a short radio message. Eighty two characters.

He wanted to know which road to take, said he was in a town called Rosenow, and asked for a fast reply. Nobody could read it. For 83 years it sat on CryptoCellar, a public archive of unsolved wartime ciphers, marked as broken open by no one.

Then Carter Leffen, who works in product development at Bloomberg in New York, pointed OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra at it. Ten hours later, he had the plaintext.