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What Bitcoin Did

What Bitcoin Did

The Fight to Defend Bitcoin From AI | Rob Hamilton

Oct 20, 2026 · 1h 32m

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"This doesn’t stop, it accelerates from here." Rob Hamilton returns to discuss the AI attacks on Bitcoin, the fallout from the Coldcard hack and the volunteers racing to find vulnerabilities before hackers do. He explains how the Bitcoin Red Team scanned around 650 codebases, flagging more than 10,000 potential issues, including 1,500 rated high or critical. We discuss how a $1 AI scan helped Rob identify the Coldcard flaw, what the team found when it tested Bitcoin Core, and how AI is uncovering problems that security audits missed. Rob also explains why he expects the attacks to spread beyond Bitcoin. We also get into what this means for self-custody, the risks of relying on a single…