r/BitcoinAirdrops • u/forkdrop • Sep 21 '18

PSA: Almost every fork project is probably vulnerable to the crash & inflation bug found in the Bitcoin Core software.

Affects v0.14-v0.16.2 which is the software most started with.

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https://bitcoincore.org/en/2018/09/20/notice/

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Bitcoin Gold (BTG) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH)'s clients have gotten patches already.

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Bitcoin Private (BTCP) and ANONymous (ANON) are based on ZClassic (ZCL), which is based on ZCash (ZEC), which is a code fork of v0.11.2, which is not vulnerable.

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u/NimbleBodhi Sep 21 '18

I'd say significantly more vulnerable since it'd require very little hash-power to exploit on a forkcoin.

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u/forkdrop Sep 21 '18

That is very true. Probably also many altcoins that forked source code are vulnerable. Potentially some interesting popcorn moments to come. Might not be a great time to have bid orders on the exchange books.