We talked about this but not too much. One of my friends is very worried about it. The discovery that P=NP could affect PoW and then the price of Bitcoin?
"To prove the existence of secure encryption, all we require is proving that P != NP. If P = NP, then we can break all of these primitives [fundamental algorithms used in cryptography]," said Rafael Pass (@PassRafael) at the Simons Institute.
We don’t know [if the primitives] actually exist. We rely on computational hardness assumptions in order to achieve that," said