Asset	USD	24 h
BTC Bitcoin	84,337	+0.8%
ETH Ethereum	2,680	+1.4%
SOL Solana	116	+2.3%
XRP XRP	1.51	+1.6%
BNB BNB	780	+2.9%
DOGE Dogecoin	0.10	+4.3%
ZEC Zcash	1,511	−1.2%
HYPE Hyperliquid	93	+1.1%

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TSM	446	−0.2%
MSFT	495	−1.1%
NVDA	222	−1.4%
AMD	609	−0.9%
META	767	+3.0%
BABA	111	−0.1%
AMZN	247	−1.1%
GOOGL	339	+0.4%

Model	Input	Output
Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic	10.00	50.00
GPT-6 Astra OpenAI	10.00	50.00
Gemini 3.8 Flash Google	0.75	3.75
Grok 4.7 xAI	1.60	4.80
DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek	0.46	1.39
Qwen3.8 Max Prime Alibaba	4.00	12.00
Kimi K3 Moonshot	3.00	15.00
GLM-5.3 Prime Zhipu	2.80	8.80

AI + cryptoSeptember 24 edition · No. 2

An AI-assisted coding contest cut the estimated cost of a quantum-safe bitcoin transaction from $320 to $66

StarkWare opened its code to a week-long competition. Participants using AI tools made the computation run about five times faster, according to CoinDesk.

In August, StarkWare made a Bitcoin transaction with this method that took about 3,100 GPU hours across roughly 100 graphics processors, for about $320. The top contest entry checks about 881 million candidates per second, against 146 million for the original code on the same GPU. The estimated drop is 79%.

According to CoinDesk, the $66 is an estimate: the improved code has not yet prepared another transaction mined on Bitcoin. The method requires sending the transaction straight to miners and does not protect coins whose public keys are already exposed.

Sources: CoinDesk · Cointelegraph

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