Jameson Lopp’s Bitcoin Testnet ‘Griefing’ Stirs Controversy
Jameson Lopp, a prominent figure in the Bitcoin community, deliberately “griefed” one of Bitcoin’s testnets by generating three years’ worth of blocks in a single week to highlight a vulnerability, sparking outrage among...
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