🚨 A major security issue in Bitcoin Core would affect 17% of the network which could be exposed to a denial of service attack.

All software prior to Bitcoin Core version 24.0.1 may be at risk.

Although very serious, few known exploits of this bug exist as it is quite costly.

However, this is a security flaw that could be exploited by an extremely wealthy, powerful, or sophisticated actor, such as a nation, that wanted to disrupt Bitcoin operations for non-financial reasons