Bitcoiners and crypto enthusiasts often boast how they can protect their Bitcoin with their own memories. They do so by memorizing the 12-word seedphrase created when they spun up their digital asset wallet.
These so-called brainwallets make it so that, so long as the seed is not recorded anywhere on paper or otherwise, the bitcoins might be considered as held only in the seedphrase holder’s mind—conventionally considered one of the safest ways to keep your Bitcoin password private.
Brainwallets are generally thought of as impractical, (due to the infallibility of the human mind) though they might come in handy during extreme situations, such as fleeing a country due to a political crisis.
However, thanks to AI, storing bitcoins and other digital assets in a brainwallet may no longer be practical for those who need the option the most.
Criminals could use new mind-reading technology based on AI for a variety of unsultry ends, including for espionage, blackmail, o
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