--- title: "Bitcoin Core merges security policy change for AI-discoverable bugs" description: "Bitcoin Core maintainers merged a change to the project's security policy so that flaws an AI could rediscover are fixed and disclosed quickly rather than held under a months-long embargo, CoinDesk reported, citing developer Antoine Poinsot's proposal. CoinTelegraph also reported the policy shift.…" language: en canonical: "https://whycoinmoves.com/en/events/bitcoin-bitcoin-core-changes-security-policy-0c79266d6d1091" published: 2026-10-23T04:44:02.000Z updated: 2026-10-23T14:11:28.000Z indexable: true --- # Bitcoin Core merges security policy change for AI-discoverable bugs Bitcoin Core maintainers merged a change to the project's security policy so that flaws an AI could rediscover are fixed and disclosed quickly rather than held under a months-long embargo, CoinDesk reported, citing developer Antoine Poinsot's proposal. CoinTelegraph also reported the policy shift.… Attributed sources: [Cointelegraph](), [CoinDesk]() ## Key facts Bitcoin Core maintainers merged a change to the project's security policy so that flaws an AI could rediscover are fixed and disclosed quickly rather than held under a months-long embargo, CoinDesk reported, citing developer Antoine Poinsot's proposal. CoinTelegraph also reported the policy shift. Evidence strength: Multiple publishers, 2 publisher group(s) (Cointelegraph, CoinDesk); this describes source coverage, not truth or causation. After site detection, observed returns were 5 minutes: -0.02% (23/10/2026, 04:44 → 23/10/2026, 04:49, UTC; Gate · USDT); 1 hour: +0.15% (23/10/2026, 04:44 → 23/10/2026, 05:44, UTC; Gate · USDT). Unlisted windows are unavailable. In the preceding 30 days, the 99th percentile of absolute hourly returns was 1.23% (OKX · USDT; cutoff 23/10/2026, 04:44, UTC). This hourly baseline is not directly comparable with a minute move. ## Returns after site detection | Window | Return | BTC | Difference from BTC | Actual sampled interval (UTC) | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 5 minutes | -0.02% | -0.02% | 0.00 pp | 23/10/2026, 04:44 → 23/10/2026, 04:49 | Gate · USDT | | 1 hour | +0.15% | +0.15% | 0.00 pp | 23/10/2026, 04:44 → 23/10/2026, 05:44 | Gate · USDT | | 24 hours | — | — | — | — | — | ## Historical hourly baseline | Metric | Value | | --- | --- | | Ready | true | | Coverage | 100.0% (720/720) | | Median absolute hourly return | 0.15% | | 99th percentile of absolute hourly returns | 1.23% | | BTC beta | 1.00 | | Source / cutoff (UTC) | OKX · USDT / 23/10/2026, 04:44 | ## Claims and open questions - CoinDesk reported that Bitcoin Core will stop sitting on bug fixes for months when the bug is one an AI could find again, after maintainers merged the policy change on Thursday. - CoinDesk reported that Poinsot, the Chaincode Labs developer who wrote the change, said reports of easily rediscovered vulnerabilities had increased, largely because LLMs drastically lower the bar to find certain classes of issues. - CoinDesk reported that a volunteer group of 16 developers calling itself the Bitcoin Red Team ran AI models across 390 bitcoin projects in about a day in late July and logged 4,962 findings, 85 of them critical. - Whether the merged policy change has been published as a specific pull request or release note, and which supported versions will receive the expedited point releases, would be confirmed by the Bitcoin Core repository or project announcement. - How the shortened testing period — which Poinsot said leaves fixes with less bake time — will be governed in practice, and whether dissenting maintainers such as Antoine Riard accept the final wording, would be confirmed by further project statements or commit history. ## Source evidence - [Bitcoin Core changes security policy as AI makes bugs easier to find]() — Cointelegraph; published 23/10/2026, 04:34; received 23/10/2026, 04:44 (UTC). - [Bitcoin Core changes security rules as AI makes finding code bugs dangerously easy]() — CoinDesk; published 23/10/2026, 12:03; received 23/10/2026, 14:05 (UTC). ## Recent BTC events and market reactions - [US spot bitcoin ETFs return to net outflows with $636 million withdrawn]() — Published 23/10/2026, 07:09 (UTC) · Multiple publishers (2 publishers) · Market watch · 5m -0.02% / 1h +0.13% - [Chinese court accepts prosecutors' bid to confiscate Bitcoin seized in UK]() — Published 22/10/2026, 06:24 (UTC) · Multiple publishers (3 publishers) · General news · 5m -0.02% / 1h -0.41% / 24h -0.94% - [US spot Bitcoin ETFs take in about $1.07 billion over three sessions]() — Published 22/10/2026, 04:41 (UTC) · Multiple publishers (3 publishers) · Market watch · 5m +0.05% / 1h +0.07% / 24h -1.31% - [Bitcoin slips below $82K after Tesla and Meta results unsettle tech markets]() — Published 22/10/2026, 03:51 (UTC) · Multiple publishers (2 publishers) · Market watch · 5m +0.13% / 1h +0.04% / 24h -1.04% - [Bitcoin rises above $84,500 as SpaceX earnings lift tech stocks]() — Published 21/10/2026, 15:13 (UTC) · Multiple publishers (2 publishers) · Market watch · 5m +0.15% / 1h +0.25% - [Full coin archive]() ## Research for this archive - [Altcoin beta to Bitcoin: BTC, ETH, SOL and DOGE hourly returns]() - [Perpetual funding rates and annualized yield: a 2025 comparison]() - [Bitcoin halving and bull markets: evidence from four halvings]() - [Bitcoin DCA vs lump sum: every start month since 2014]() [Methods and limitations]() Publisher count is not independent evidence count. 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