Monday, January 21, 2019

PeckShield: Beam public chain stops out of block because user clone wallet induces software defect

In response to the incident that the Beam public chain stopped yesterday, Jeff Liu, head of the PeckShield Silicon Valley R&D Center, said that the stop-out event was due to a software defect due to a storage optimization of the bitcoin UTXO by the MimbleWimble protocol of the Beam public chain core. The cause is that a user clones his wallet and generates two identical UTXOs. The Beam team quickly released an emergency software upgrade that returned to normal after five minutes of downtime, with no loss of digital assets. Jeff believes that the Beam public chain uses a lot of new technologies, and it is normal to have problems in the early stages of the launch. The specific time points of the event are as follows: Beijing time 01/21, 17:13: The Beam public chain stops the block after excavating 25,709 blocks; 19:42: Some mine pools are adjusted to produce empty blocks; 21:59: Beam The software upgrade code was released to Github; 22:29: The Starfire Mine pool dug out 25,820 blocks containing 1,019 transactions, and the Beam public chain returned to normal.


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