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earlz | 7 years ago

There appears to be a workaround to bypass the assert check in Bitcoin Core 0.16 that allows one to mint new coins by using an input multiple times and it be accepted by the network without crashing. Probably will be waiting until the dust settles on this before publishing that test case though, since it's clearly much more severe than a DoS

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stale2002|7 years ago

O.o wow, that is way worse than I expected.

Do you have a source for where this was written up, or did you come up with this on your own?

I just want to be able to reference back to this in the future. So whenever you decide to publish, I'd love to check it out!

earlz|7 years ago

Actually it only seems to be a side effect of our test environment. Using a more realistic environment makes it not effective, sorry for the false alarm