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Posts by Jamie Holdstock

Decred Consensus Vulnerability: Post-Incident Report

August 25, 2026

Between 12:20 UTC on Sunday August 16th, 2026 and 19:44 UTC on Monday August 17th, 2026, an inflation bug was exploited on Decred mainnet that generated a total of 2,077.96933695 DCR. Upon review, it was found that the bug being exploited was the …

A More Private Way to Stake

June 2, 2020

The Decred community considers privacy to be a fundamental human right.

Protecting the privacy of Decred users has been a core tenet of the project since it’s inception. To quote the Decred constitution:

Privacy and security are priorities and …