BSV bug leaves nodes unsure which scam chain to follow
February 09, 2020 —
shinohai
The Hoaxtoshi fork-of-a-fork, BitcoinSV, is reportedly connecting to BCash nodes due to a bug that automatically enters "safe mode" when it finds a longer but invalid chain. Aside from this lulzy revelation, twitter user Ben Verret also revealed:
"There are still at least two chains actively mined in BSV, it's a total mess."
Although Hoaxtoshi has claimed in the past to have knowledge of bugs that would "destroy Bitcoin", he was apparently unaware of these particular flaws in his own "BitcoinSV" implementation, since no one seemed to notice the bug existed since November 2018 when their fork went live. (archived)
Tags: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Lulz, News
