Category: faulty wallet versions
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The XRP Regular Key Blackhole: How Users Accidentally Lock Themselves Out Forever
XRP Ledger users face a critical vulnerability that can permanently lock them out of their accounts through a technical flaw known as the fixMasterKeyAsRegularKey bug. This devastating wallet issue has trapped unsuspecting users in an unrecoverable “blackhole” scenario, making professional wallet recovery services essential for affected accounts. What is the XRP Regular Key Blackhole? The…
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Buggy wallets – what are they and what are the consequences?
Some time ago Bitcoin Core wallet versions 0.4 and 0.5 had a bug. You can read about it here and here. The core client might have left some private keys unencrypted when setting the password and hashing the private keys inside the wallet.dat file. Next versions had a fix and encrypted all the private keys.…