Rogue transaction cripples casual bitcoin software users
Multiple versions of the bitcoin client began failing this week, after a rogue transaction stopped users from restarting the software. The problems first surfaced early Monday morning US time, with a message on the Bitcoin Talk forum. "Just opened my laptop and started Bitcoin QT and received the message blockchain corrupt, I clicked OK and now it appears "Reindexing blocks - 204 weeks," said the poster. "Also, my Bitcoins are Unconfirmed. What happened, why the message?" Others quickly reported the same error on multiple computers, running different versions of Bitcoin-QT, which is the....
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