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Bitcoin Core speeds up security patches as AI audits find bugs faster

  • —New category covers bugs that LLMs can rediscover with minimal effort
  • —Such flaws get immediate point releases for all active versions with a simultaneous advisory
  • —Critical bugs affecting network consensus remain handled case by case
  • —Bitcoin Red Team logged 4,962 findings, including 85 critical, across 390 repos in one day
Why it matters: AI lowers the barrier to finding flaws, so faster patching shrinks the window for exploitation on Bitcoin's dominant client.
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Source: Bit2Me News
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