Darkcoin Finds and Fixes Darksend Privacy Bug
Darkcoin, an anonymous Altcoin, has recently experienced a bug with Darksend, the anonymous payment protocol that makes it almost impossible to trace transactions back to the sending address. The bug was found by Darkcointalk user Aswan and was quickly solved by the Darkcoin developers. The post on Darkcointalk by eduffield explained: We ask that everyone stop using Darksend for the time being until we're able to push out a fix to an issue Aswan found. This issue comes from the way fees are paid in Darksend with the combination of the way the client tries to denominate the same amount each....
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