China CERT Blockchain Report Blasts Ripple For High-risk Security Flaws
Litecoin and Ethereum are also scrutinized in the report. Ethereum has a fair few high-risk vulnerabilities, as does Litecoin. Blockchain projects are very common in this day and age. Individual companies and projects feel their own ledger-based solution is better than all others. A recent report by China CERT shows there is still a lot of work to be done where open–source block chain projects are concerned. In fact, according to this report, Ripple is the least secure solution, as it contains over 200 high-risk bugs. It was only a matter of time until open source blockchain projects would....
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