Bitcoin Red Team Finds Nearly 5,000 Vulnerabilities Across Bitcoin Ecosystem

TLDR

• Bitcoin Red Team filed 4,962 security findings across 390 Bitcoin projects in around 30 hours
• 720 findings were rated high or critical, but only 147 have reached the developers who need to fix them
• The security sweep was triggered by the Coldcard hardware wallet hack, which saw over $100 million in Bitcoin stolen
• AnchorWatch CEO Rob Hamilton says OpenAI restricted his access, forcing him to use Chinese open-source AI models for his research
• OpenSats launched a Code RED grant track to pay researchers who disclose flaws and cover their AI costs

Volunteer security researchers have filed nearly 5,000 vulnerability reports across the Bitcoin ecosystem in a rapid security audit triggered by a major hardware wallet hack.

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

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