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What auditing a Bitcoin 0.1.0 fork in 2026 turned up

Bitflash started from the source of Bitcoin 0.1.0, the 2009 release, ported to a modern toolchain. Two parts were replaced: proof of work is RandomX, and IP addresses are gone, so every node is a Tor…

  • Bitflash fork audit in 2026 reveals P2P layer checksum
  • Script number overflow causes consensus discrepancies between Windows and Linux
  • 711 memory leaks identified, most fixed with tests

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