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Bitcoin Private hard fork incoming to deal with 1.8M premine coins

Bitcoin Private hard fork

Bitcoin Private came under fire couple of days back as CoinMetrics exposed their team from doing a premine of ~1.8 million coins and hiding them under shielded addresses. In addition to that, there are 20,000 additional coins as well. To deal with this embarrassing situation, the Bitcoin Private team is planning to do a hard fork and remove the shielded coins from existence.

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