Bitcoin v0.3.10 - overflow bug emergency fix
Emergency release of Bitcoin v0.3.10 to fix a value overflow vulnerability exploited to create 184 billion bitcoins in a single transaction. Satoshi coordinated the rapid soft-fork deployment.
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Emergency release of Bitcoin v0.3.10 to fix a value overflow vulnerability exploited to create 184 billion bitcoins in a single transaction. Satoshi coordinated the rapid soft-fork deployment.
Satoshi reveals the wallet directory (%appdata%\Bitcoin), notes the underlying transactional DBM is safe from crash/power loss, and confirms socket cleanup code is already added for the next release.
Satoshi reveals the wallet location (%appdata%\Bitcoin), explains it uses a transactional database (DBM) safe from crash/power loss, and confirms socket cleanup code is added for the next release.