Zcash loses over $5 billion after AI finds 4-year bug that could have created fake hidden coins

CryptoSlate2h agoUpdated 1h ago
Zcash loses over $5 billion after AI finds 4-year bug that could have created fake hidden coins
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Zcash lost more than $5 billion in market value after its developers, using Anthropic's Claude AI, discovered a long-running flaw in one of its privacy systems that could have enabled counterfeit tokens to be created without easy detection. In response to this disclosure, data from CryptoSlate showed that ZEC fell more than 50% to as low as $255 […] The post...

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