Tech News: Patching up security gaps in cryptocurrencies often takes a long time, find researchers

[bob_turner]

A defining characteristic of cryptocurrencies is that they are organized in a decentralized system and are not managed by a central bank like conventional currencies. This creates problems when researchers detect security vulnerabilities in the systems of virtual currencies. Sometimes it's unclear who runs a system, whether a system is affected by a certain vulnerability or whether a bug has been patched.

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