The Bitcoin Red Team, a volunteer group of 16 security researchers, audited 390 open-source Bitcoin projects in 27.5 hours and identified 4,962 security issues, including 85 critical and 635 high-severity vulnerabilities. The audit was funded by the OpenSats nonprofit with nearly $40,000 and was triggered by vulnerabilities discovered in the COLDCARD hardware wallet. The team used AI-powered tools to scan codebases at an average rate of 180 findings per hour. The researchers followed a responsible disclosure process, informing project maintainers privately before any public release. While the findings represent a significant security sweep, Bitcoin’s core protocol was not compromised; the audit targeted the surrounding ecosystem of tools and applications.
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