Bitcoin Unlimited Dev: Bug Caused By ‘Miscounting of Bytes’
Bitcoin.com pool has lost 13.21 BTC or over $12,000 USD due to a bug in BitcoinUnlimited software, which caused it to mine a block bigger than 1MB. So…What Happened? Bitcoin.com, an information portal, which also provides mining pool services has lost out on 13.2 BTC due to a bug in the Bitcoin Unlimited software, which is used on the pool. Bitcoinist spoke with Bitcoin Unlimited developer Andrew Stone a.k.a. “theZerg” to figure out what really happened: Bitcoinist: So what caused this bug? Andrew Stone (AS): The bug was caused by a miscounting of the bytes in the coinbase. Basically the....
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