Bitcoin Red Team founder turns to Chinese AI: ‘It absolutely guts me’
Summary
A Bitcoin security researcher says OpenAI restricted his access after he started using its Trust & Cyber tools to analyze Bitcoin-related code, forcing him back to open-source Chinese AI models. The researcher, Rob Hamilton of AnchorWatch, said the limit blocked further investigation into potential vulnerabilities in Bitcoin infrastructure. The Bitcoin Red Team, a volunteer group, has been using AI plus human review to scan hundreds of open-source Bitcoin repositories, with efforts sped up after a major hardware wallet hack and large Bitcoin thefts. Hamilton argues that defenders are being denied the most capable AI tools while attackers will ignore such restrictions, leaving “white hats” at a disadvantage.
