Bitcoin Core merged a policy update Thursday, opened by Chaincode Labs developer Antoine Poinsot, for vulnerabilities deemed "easily discoverable"—expected to mean flaws findable via a simple LLM query. For those, fixes will be backported to all maintained releases and shipped with a security advisory as fast as possible, since a quiet patch "would achieve little" when AI scans can spot it. The change follows a spike in reports of easily rediscovered bugs, and reflects broader AI-driven security pressure: a volunteer "Bitcoin Red Team," an August AI audit logging nearly 5,000 findings, and patched Lightning and hardware wallet bugs.

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  • @TFTC21 TFTCFirst reportOn X ↗

    Bitcoin Core is updating its security disclosure policy in response to the flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilities. Antoine Poinsot on the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list: "This is largely due to LLMs drastically reducing the bar to find certain classes of issues or identify covert…

  • @BitcoinArchive Bitcoin ArchiveOn X ↗

    Bitcoin Core speeds up fixes for AI-found bugs. The team used to wait for the next big release but will now patch and ship them right away. 👉 They are definitely scared, which is good!

  • @wublockchain12 吴说区块链On X ↗

    Bitcoin Core 调整安全漏洞披露政策，将对“易于发现”的漏洞尽快在所有仍受维护的主要版本中提供修复，并同步发布安全公告，包括仅通过简单大语言模型提示即可发现的漏洞。开发者 Antoine Poinsot…

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