This week security experts found a website glitch on the e-commerce marketplace Overstock that let customers purchase items for a fraction of the price.The reason users were getting such huge discounts is because the system was accidentally allowing bitcoin cash (BCH) purchases in place of items priced in bitcoin core (BTC).Also read: No, Mainstream Media, That Country Did Not Ban Bitcoin.Again.According to the company Krebs on Security and the security firm Bancsec, Overstock’s marketplace had a serious glitch allowing people to pay for products priced in BTC in BCH.On January 5 a Krebs researcher chose to purchase three outdoor solar lamps from Overstock which added up to $78.27.At the time Overstock’s invoices told the researcher to pay 0.00475574 bitcoins to a specific address.Ins
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