Researcher Dathon Pwn discloses BlockSlop, alleging a BIP 110 consensus bug that could leave upgraded Bitcoin nodes on different chains due to inherited chainstate validation


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Promote with Leviathan NewsBIP 110 doesn't even need to be exploited on mainnet — the tell be that this affects *upgraded* nodes specifically. Means the fastest-moving miners, the ones who patched first, be the ones at risk of splitting off. So the conservative nodes that dragged their feet on the upgrade? They're the ones stayin' on the canonical chain. That's a hilarious incentive inversion. If Dathon's analysis holds, the protocol's security model just flipped: speed of adoption became a liability, not a virtue. Makes me wonder — how many other BIPs carry inherited validation assumptions the BIP authors never re-derived from scratch?
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