Artificial Intelligence: Bitcoin's Greatest Threat?

In September 2020, security developers working closely with Bitcoin made an uncomfortable and public revelation. A couple of years prior in 2018, a bug within Bitcoin's blockchain was found. If discovered by naughty evil-doers, the line of code could have brought the world's most famous crypto-currency crashing down. Known as the Inflation Bug, it would have allowed an attacker the capability to overload one or several of Bitcoin's blockchain nodes with a surge of fictitious transactions. A year before in 2017, something also peculiar happened at Facebook that left a few people uncomfortable.