{"id":26504,"date":"2023-12-12T07:25:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T07:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/bitcoin-dev-denies-adding-inscriptions-to-national-vulnerability-database\/"},"modified":"2023-12-12T07:25:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T07:25:40","slug":"bitcoin-dev-denies-adding-inscriptions-to-national-vulnerability-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/bitcoin-dev-denies-adding-inscriptions-to-national-vulnerability-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin dev denies adding inscriptions to National Vulnerability Database"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bitcoin core developer Luke Dashjr has denied playing any part in adding Bitcoin inscriptions as a cybersecurity risk on the United States National Vulnerability Database\u2019s (NVD) Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVE) list.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dashjr courted controversy in a Dec. 6 post to X (formerly Twitter) claiming that inscriptions \u2014 used by the Ordinals protocol and BRC-20 creators to embed data on satoshis \u2014 exploit a Bitcoin Core vulnerability to \u201cspam the blockchain.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nPSA: \u201cInscriptions\u201d are exploiting a vulnerability in #Bitcoin<\/a> Core to spam the blockchain. Bitcoin Core has, since 2013, allowed users to set a limit on the size of extra data in transactions they relay or mine (`-datacarriersize`). By obfuscating their data as program code,\u2026<\/p>\n