85 Critical Flaws Found as AI-Powered Bitcoin Security Audit Hits 390 Repos
In the lastest Bitcoin news today, A volunteer security effort called Bitcoin Red Team, led by Bitcoin developer Calle and Rob Hamilton, CEO of AnchorWatch, filed 4,962 findings across 390 open-source Bitcoin repositories in the first 27.5 hours of operation, identifying 85 critical and 635 high-severity issues, according to a Bitcoin Magazine report published August 5, 2026.
The audit was funded through more than $40,000 in AI compute costs, covered by OpenSats, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to open-source Bitcoin development.
Bitcoin Red Team update: we've grown to 16 globally distributed people working 24/7
We're running a large-scale ecosystem security audit across bitcoin code bases.
27.5 hours in, we've filed 4,962 findings across 390 projects. 85 critical and 635 high severity issues.
We're at… pic.twitter.com/iRCylprbY1
- calle (@callebtc) August 5, 2026
This is not simply a bug-bounty sweep. It is a structural stress test of the entire Bitcoin software ecosystem, triggered by a critical random number generator (RNG) vulnerability in Coldcard hardware wallets that has resulted in more than $100 million in confirmed Bitcoin losses.
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