Unplug the Bitcoin miner and do us all a favour: Antminer has remote shutdown flaw

'Antbleed' attack could crock 70 per cent of all mining. Time to try another flavour?

A new branded bug (sigh) has landed, specific to an ASIC-based Bitcoin miner: dubbed "Antbleed", it allows remote shutdown of hardware sold by a company called "Bitmain"."