Given its severity, the team had to coordinate with miners to fix the flaw with an emergency soft fork.
Sci-Hub, a pirate library of academic papers censored by Twitter, PayPal and domain systems, left the distributed domain platform Handshake after two days, unsatisfied by the level of decentralization.
Sci-Hub, a pirate database of academic papers using bitcoin for funding, has joined the distributed domain names network Handshake.
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