A two-week AI-assisted security sweep across nearly the entire Bitcoin open-source ecosystem has already surfaced many real severe and high-severity vulnerabilities, with the easiest-to-find issues largely addressed and maintainers now working through validation, according to comments relayed by Bitcoin News on X. Bitcoin Red Team member @callebtc said the review exposed decades of accumulated open-source technical debt and argued that AI is now finding flaws at a speed and scale beyond human researchers. He said Lightning, Bitcoin’s off-chain payments network, appears particularly vulnerable because its complexity leaves its security posture "worse than average," while unmaintained Bitcoin projects should be treated as vulnerable until proven safe. Projects that began building AI-based security and audit processes months ago are now in a very different position from those that delayed, he said. The team has finished a foundational scan of almost the full ecosystem, but @callebtc argued outside red-team testing may need to continue indefinitely as AI capabilities improve. Despite the large number of reported serious findings, he said the process should ultimately make Bitcoin stronger, and similar AI security reviews are likely to expand well beyond Bitcoin soon.