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Bitcoin sidechain Liquid pauses after purported ‘white hats’ withdraw $320M in BTC

Bitcoin sidechain Liquid pauses after purported ‘white hats’ withdraw $320M in BTCWorldPing

The actors told Blockstream they would return most of the 4,000 BTC after the Elements vulnerability is patched across the network.

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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