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May 11For 18 Months, Any Miner Could Have Crashed Bitcoin's Network. 43% of Nodes Still Haven't Patched.●May 10Wall Street Built a VIX for Bitcoin — And It Goes Live June 1●May 10Congress Banned Stablecoin Yield. BlackRock Just Filed Two Funds That Give It Back.●May 9In 48 Hours, Kraken Dropped $600M and Applied to Become a Federal Bank●May 9Tether Froze $515 Million in USDT Last Month — Using a Kill Switch You Didn't Know Existed●May 8Oil Crossed $100 Last Night and Crypto Just Lost $300 Million●May 8The Hottest Job in Crypto Didn't Exist a Year Ago: Meet the AI Agent Manager●May 7Coinbase Fired 700 People and the CEO Says Your Company Is Next●May 7Someone Sent Grok a Morse Code Tweet — Then Walked Away With $175K in Crypto●May 6A Bitcoin Miner Dumped Its Mining Ops for AI — Then Signed a $9.8B Deal and Hit an All-Time High Stock Price●May 11For 18 Months, Any Miner Could Have Crashed Bitcoin's Network. 43% of Nodes Still Haven't Patched.●May 10Wall Street Built a VIX for Bitcoin — And It Goes Live June 1●May 10Congress Banned Stablecoin Yield. BlackRock Just Filed Two Funds That Give It Back.●May 9In 48 Hours, Kraken Dropped $600M and Applied to Become a Federal Bank●May 9Tether Froze $515 Million in USDT Last Month — Using a Kill Switch You Didn't Know Existed●May 8Oil Crossed $100 Last Night and Crypto Just Lost $300 Million●May 8The Hottest Job in Crypto Didn't Exist a Year Ago: Meet the AI Agent Manager●May 7Coinbase Fired 700 People and the CEO Says Your Company Is Next●May 7Someone Sent Grok a Morse Code Tweet — Then Walked Away With $175K in Crypto●May 6A Bitcoin Miner Dumped Its Mining Ops for AI — Then Signed a $9.8B Deal and Hit an All-Time High Stock Price●

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For 18 Months, Any Miner Could Have Crashed Bitcoin's Network. 43% of Nodes Still Haven't Patched.

May 11, 2026 · 5 min read

Bitcoin Core quietly patched its first-ever memory safety bug in late 2024, disguising the fix as a logging improvement. The vulnerability — now public — let miners remotely crash nodes running versions 0.14.0 through 28.x. Nearly half the network is still exposed.