As AI-assisted vulnerability discovery goes mainstream, how much longer can vulnerabilities stay hidden? Bitcoin Core’s answer is: they can’t. On October 23, it changed its security disclosure policy, saying that now AI makes bugs easier to find, keeping some vulnerabilities secret no longer offers much protection. My first thought when I saw this was that the situation for node operators has changed: they used to rely on the time gap to apply patches, but AI is shrinking that window. Whether you run a full node or depend on a hosted service, you no longer control the pace at which you’re exposed. BTC’s 24-hour trading volume is $1.2 billion, and it’s down 0.2%—but a lack of price reaction doesn’t mean nothing is happening under the hood. The contest in open-source security is shifting from who finds flaws first to who discloses and fixes them first. $BTC