Several antivirus solutions erroneously detect some Bitcoin files as the Stoned computer virus that was popular more than a quarter of a century ago. These are false positives triggered by the fact that the 27-year-old virus signature was uploaded into the Bitcoin blockchain. This is possible because when a transaction is made, a small snippet of text can be added to it. In this case, a prankster included byte sequences that are available in the Stoned computer virus.The writing of the Stone…
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