Bitcoin bug allowed miners to run code on other people’s nodes
A Bitcoin Core validation bug could have let miners remotely crash and execute operations on other people’s full nodes.
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A Bitcoin Core validation bug could have let miners remotely crash and execute operations on other people’s full nodes.
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Prominent Bitcoin Core developers and influencers were laughing while describing a denial of service (DoS) attack against Knots nodes.
The OP_RETURN war has degraded into childish rhetorical tactics, with Bitcoin Core devs laughing at Knots node operators.
Bitcoin mining pool operators achieved a dramatic reduction in minimum fees yet inadvertently shot themselves in the foot.
Bitcoin Core developers have been working on patching a pesky bug affecting full node software operators called the disk fill attack.