‘We Are Whitehats’: Nearly 4,000 BTC Drained From Blockstream’s Liquid Peg
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According to several reports, nearly 4,000 bitcoin worth roughly $319 million appear to have moved out of the Liquid Network’s federation wallet Sunday, followed by an onchain message from an unidentified party claiming, “we are whitehats. contact us on chain.
This is a short WorldPing brief. The full report was published by Bitcoin.com.
The layer two (L2) sidechain known as the Liquid Network paused on Sunday following a so-called white hacker exploiting a bug in Blockstream’s Elements software, according to the X account Sideswap (Blockstream’s atomic-swap marketplace).
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Bitcoin.com
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Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Cointelegraph
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Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Bitcoin.com