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Blockstream Hunts ‘White Hats’ After 4,000 BTC Leaves Liquid

Blockstream Hunts ‘White Hats’ After 4,000 BTC Leaves LiquidWorldPing

The layer two (L2) sidechain known as the Liquid Network paused on Sunday following a so-called white hacker exploiting a bug in Blockstream’s Elements software, according to the X account Sideswap (Blockstream’s atomic-swap marketplace).

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