The consequences of a Scam: Bitcoin Private developers are preparing for the hard forks
Source:The Team acknowledged the increase in the total number of coins cryptocurrency, which took place the day before. It is noteworthy that none of the programmers knows exactly where everything is «unnecessary» BTCP. At the moment, only 300 000 BTCP was sent to exchange.
In the course of an internal investigation into the incident was conducted by a private audit of the project. The developers managed to find the culprit — it was one under the name airk42. The suspect took an active part in the work on Private even from the early days of cryptocurrency. It was then that he took advantage of a previously found vulnerability of the blockchain.
theMystery solved
Originally airk42 was requested to solve a bug in the code Bitcoin Private. He reported on the successful completion of the task, but have built a few of my lines of code that were not seen the rest of the team. The back door allowed airk42 instantly produce over two million coins BTCP.
After the publication of Coinmetrics programmers found the malicious code. It looks like this.
tx.vout.size() > 1.
Just a few extra characters and nodes cryptocurrency verify their purchases of counterfeit units. This led to an artificial increase in the total number of coins BTCP.
After the incident, the team Bitcoin Private immediately warned all major crypto currency exchange on the necessity to suspend trading Aldona. Ignore this request, as trade coins BTCP may well fall under the lawsuit on money laundering.
To finally solve the problem, developers have come up with a fairly radical plan — they're going to destroy cryptocurrency for secure addresses. This will lead to the destruction of the «false» BTCP created during the activation of the backdoor. This will also be a strong blow to the economy of the project, as «real» BTCP will be destroyed.
Now I get why this coin is called a Bitcoin Private. P for Private Premine.
— Man on a Ledger (@ManOnALedger)
There are three options for further developments. The first is a simple destruction of the coins. Second — hardwork, in which the Private Bitcoin blockchain can be separated into two independent circuits. Finally, the third — the full collapse of the BTCP. Project developers are strongly recommend to all holders to move their coin to the usual address.
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