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CobraBitcoin Warns Stronger AI Models Raise Odds of Next Major Bitcoin (BTC) Exploit

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CobraBitcoin, a long-standing Bitcoin observer, has flagged concerns that advancing AI models pose an emerging security risk to the network. The warning comes as a high-tier AI system achieved critical-level capabilities, and automated security scans identified thousands of vulnerabilities across numerous projects. While CobraBitcoin stopped short of naming a specific exploit, the comment reflects growing unease in some corners of the crypto community about whether sufficiently powerful AI could discover and exploit weaknesses in Bitcoin's codebase or related infrastructure.

The underlying concern hinges on whether autonomous AI systems could eventually identify Bitcoin flaws faster than developers can patch them - a classic security race. CobraBitcoin's framing underscores that as AI capabilities expand, so may the attack surface, though concrete evidence of imminent risk remains thin.

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