Double Spending Risk Remains After July 4th Bitcoin Fork

By July 6, 2015Bitcoin Business

fork, road, consensus The delayed implementation of a bitcoin core update by a small number of the network’s miners resulted in the addition of invalid transaction blocks to the bitcoin blockchain this weekend.

The result was a fork in the network that created two versions of the bitcoin blockchain, which continued for six blocks on 4th July. An additional three invalid blocks were added to the blockchain in a repeat of the issue the following […]

Leave a Reply

All Today's Crypto News In One Place