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A group of Bitcoin Core developers discussed various attack vectors for Bitcoin as well as ways to plan ahead and circumvent nefarious actors.Bitcoin 2022, hosted in Miami, Florida, on April 6-9, featured a panel titled “...

Many Bitcoin miners in the West might acquiesce to government attempts to blacklist certain addresses if Russia attempted to skirt sanctions.The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1170: “This is what a real attack on Bitcoin would look like.”...

Discussing a recent attack on the Bitcoin network, in which some nodes were flooding peers with fake IP addresses.Watch This Episode On YouTubeListen To This Episode:...

The Lightning Network is the main reason Bitcoin is legal in El Salvador. The main chain couldn’t serve a whole country without a fast and reliable payment channel built on top of it. It’s as simple as that. However, is the Lightning Network invulnerable to attacks? Is its architecture as bulletproof as Bitcoin’s main network? Not according to technical expert Shinobi, who qualifies...

What happens when your Lightning Network routing node is fed with garbage transactions that never resolve? In short, it causes a lot of grief for routing nodes. What was once a smooth, global payment system can be locked up with trivial effort from a savvy script writer. Working in a small team of routing nodes, we successfully ran a test of the attack...