The Bitcoin Glitch

A bug in the system?

There may be a bug in the Bitcoin infrastructure, and which might be causing the mining process to act incorrectly. This may have glitched the prices of bitcoin. The problem can be illustrated here, where we have a small delay between blocks (just 21 and 31 seconds between two consecutive blocks) and the creation of an extremely small block size (0.29kB):

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE

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Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. EU Citizen. Auld Reekie native. Old World Breaker. New World Creator.

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