A High-Severity Bug Could Have Stalled Bitcoin Mining—Bitcoin Core Has a Fix

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.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.