Bitcoin Core Rewrites Security Policy as LLMs Make Some Bugs Easy to Rediscover

Bitcoin Core has rewritten part of its security policy for an era of AI-assisted bug hunting. A policy update approved this week creates an “easily discoverable” category of vulnerability, and those get a fix and a public advisory right away instead of waiting out the standard embargo . Under the updated text , merged on Thursday, Oct. 22, Bitcoin Core will ship a point release with the fix for every maintained major version “as soon as possible, along with a security advisory, without applying the standard severity-dependent embargo periods.” The policy defines the new class as flaws found “with minimal effort, such as through a simple LLM prompt.” Get Unchained’s crypto news in your inbox with the free Unchained Daily newsletter .

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