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The team behind the development of the altcoin known as Bitcoin Private has recently confirmed that around 2.04 million units of the coin have been created that were never supposed to exist on the blockchain network. This is as per their official statement released on 24th December.
The previous day a report was released by the digital assets analytics website known as Coin Metrics which the revealed the import of Bitcoin chain data and the addition of 2.4 million units of Bitcoin Private, which has been secretly mined. This has a total worth of $3.9 million during press time. According to the short white paper published by the website, the total supply of Bitcoin Private is around 20.4 million units. However, this secret mining incident brought that value to 22.6 million.
After receiving the reports, the team at Bitcoin Private launched an investigation in order to determine if the finding of the website were actually true. After a thorough internal audit, a statement was released by the team which ascertained that the findings by Coin Metric were mathematically correct. They further added saying “However, at this time, the source, purpose, and recipient of this exploit is currently unknown to the Bitcoin Private Contribution Team.”
A further statement was released by the team which details the timeline of events regarding this issue. There was a bounty posted for a specific issue which was accepted by a developer. The developer then transitioned into being a Bitcoin Private developer and was subsequently promoted to a contributor to GitHub. This enabled the developer to merge pull requests. The developer completed the issue for the bounty and merged their own code. He finally received his reward for the work. The team at Bitcoin Private further revealed that there was a single line of code that was missing which allowed a fork mine to be exploited due to the nodes not correctly verifying the false fork blocks. However, as soon as the developer collected the bounty, he left the project.
The team at Bitcoin Private had no prior knowledge of this incident, and they have contacted HitBTC, which is a major crypto exchange regarding this incident. They are also unclear about the current whereabouts and use of those secretly mined coins. During press time, Bitcoin Private is traded at $1.97 which is down by 7% in the last 24 hours.
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