Bitcoin Core Developer Saves Bitcoin Cash from Crippling Vulnerability
Cryptovest
Published Aug 13, 2018 09:15AM ET
Updated Aug 13, 2018 10:20AM ET
Bitcoin Core Developer Saves Bitcoin Cash from Crippling Vulnerability
Considering the number of polarizing conflicts that go on between the Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash communities, it would probably be a shock to many that a Bitcoin Core developer reached out to the Bitcoin Cash project and helped repair a potentially crippling community.
But this is precisely what happened, according to Cory Fields, a Bitcoin Core developer.
“On April 25, 2018, I anonymously and privately disclosed a critical vulnerability in Bitcoin Cash, one of the world’s most valuable cryptocurrencies—not to be confused with Bitcoin. A successful exploit of this vulnerability could have been so disruptive that transacting Bitcoin Cash safely would no longer be possible, completely undermining the utility (and thus the value) of the currency itself. Instead, the vulnerability was fixed without incident, and publicly disclosed on May 7, 2018...
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