Bitcoin Core wins rare praise as independent audit finds no serious flaws

Bitcoin Core’s first independent audit found no serious vulnerabilities, with reviewers praising the project’s security, testing depth and overall code maturity.

Bitcoin Core has cleared its first-ever third-party security audit, with results confirming that the software securing the world’s largest decentralized network is highly mature.

The review, conducted by French security firm Quarkslab and commissioned by OSTIF on behalf of Brink, examined the project’s most sensitive components, particularly the peer-to-peer (P2P) layer and block validation logic, over a 104-day period between May and September.

According to the report, Bitcoin Core’s codebase is “the most mature and well-tested,” the auditors evaluated, despite its size, which includes more than 200,000 lines of C++ and over 1,200 tests already in place.

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