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What happened in Bitcoin on September 20: A critical bug, fixed in time (2018).
Developers disclose that a bug could have let someone create bitcoin out of thin air. It was patched before anyone used it on the main network.
CVE-2018-17144, a fix for which was released on September 18th in Bitcoin Core versions 0.16.3 and 0.17.0rc4, includes both a Denial of Service component and a critical inflation vulnerability.
Bitcoin Core · September 20, 2018
Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments. While the system works well enough for most transactions, it stil…Read the full quotes ↗
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