Rob Hamilton, CEO of AnchorWatch and a Bitcoin contributor, had his first commit merged into Bitcoin Core on August 20, fixing a wallet-related bug discovered using AI models. His initiative, the Bitcoin Red Team, documented nearly 5,000 issues in 30 hours of scanning across more than 390 open-source repositories, including 85 classified as critical and 635 as high-severity. OpenAI blocked Hamilton from continuing his security analysis around August 9, forcing the team to pivot to alternatives like Kimi K3. The main challenge now lies in coordinating with maintainers across hundreds of repositories to review, triage, and patch the identified vulnerabilities.
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