A dangerous bug in Bitcoin’s Lightning Network has been fixed
Bitcoin developer Rusty Russell disclosed a critical bug in the Lightning Network allowing an attacker to claim to open a payments channel but either not pay to the peer, or not pay the full amount. All major lightning software clients have been updated to fix the vulnerability.
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