A High-Severity Bug Could Have Stalled Bitcoin Mining—Bitcoin Core Has a Fix
Summary
Bitcoin Core has released patches for three software vulnerabilities, including a severe issue that could have prevented miners from creating new blocks. The updates also address separate flaws involving denial-of-service and privacy concerns, though none of the bugs allowed for stolen coins.
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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