Bitcoin Unlimited Second Bug Sees Closed-Source Code Release
Bitcoin Unlimited, hereinafter BU, appeared to suffer a second denial-of-service (DOS) attack Tuesday, node numbers plummeting by over 100 in minutes. According to reports, the sudden offlining was due to a second bug found following that which last week shut down 50 percent of nodes. The events appear to prove suspicions from Bitcoin Core developer Greg Maxwell, who at the time of the first shutdown said that BU included further bugs which “remain unfixed.” Fellow Core developer Peter Todd meanwhile highlighted the unusual behavior accompanying the bug and its patching by BU developers.....
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Previously, Cointelegraph reported that Bitcoin price declined to $926 due to hard fork contingency and the likelihood of Bitcoin Unlimited being forked by its closed group of developers. Bitcoin price bounced back to $1,115 in the earning morning of March 22. However, almost immediately after Bitcoin price recovered back to the $1,115 margin, it plummeted to $1,010, due to the ambiguity surrounding the execution of the Bitcoin Unlimited hard fork. Because of the possibility of Bitcoin Unlimited creating a split chains and two tokens of the Bitcoin network, both investors and traders worry....