Gavin Andresen Slams Bitcoin Core in $12,000 Bug Loss Twitter Jibe
Former Bitcoin core developer and one of the founders of the Bitcoin Foundation, Gavin Andresen, has once again expressed his negative feelings about Bitcoin Core known via Twitter after a miner with a node running the alternative Bitcoin protocol, Bitcoin Unlimited, lost $12,000 through a bug. Bitcoin Unlimited bug. News of a bug in the Bitcoin Unlimited code that had caused a miner to lose 13.2BTC, which equates to about $12,000, arose on Reddit in the pro-Bitcoin core subreddit, /r/bitcoin, where the poster proclaimed “Bitcoin.com loses 13.2BTC trying to fork the network: Untested and....
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