A High-Severity Bug Could Have Stalled Bitcoin Mining—Bitcoin Core Has a Fix
Three bugs—spanning denial-of-service and privacy issues rather than coin theft—have all been patched, with the most serious capable of halting a miner’s ability to build new blocks.
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Bitcoin Core discloses three patched security flaws, including high-severity mining bug
Bitcoin Core disclosed three previously patched security vulnerabilities, including a high-seve...
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