DigiByte (DGB)

@binance @okx @kucoincom @gate_io wallet infra teams: DigiByte Core v9.26.2 is urgent. Please upgrade DGB nodes ASAP to fix a mining issue. v7.17.3/older needs reindex/resync. Release: https://t.co/whTbVOGdLu

DigiByte: The Groestl $DGB Mining Incident and the v9.26.2 Fix

A plain-language explainer for the DigiByte community, miners, pools, and exchanges:

Someone used AI to analyze DigiByte's consensus code and discovered they could still mine blocks with Groestl — one of DigiByte's old, retired mining algorithms — because of a safety check that went missing during the v8 code rebase in 2021/2022.

DigiByte is supposed to run 5 mining algorithms. Starting 2026-06-28 at 16:40:05 UTC (block 23,751,096), it was effectively running a 6th (Groestl) that was retired back in 2019 and should no longer be accepted.

This did not steal anyone's coins and did not reverse confirmed transactions.

But it destabilized the network and caused it to split: some software accepted the Groestl blocks and some rejected them, so different nodes and explorers ended up on different versions of the chain.

The fix is v9.26.2. It permanently stops new Groestl (and any other retired/unknown algorithm) blocks, while keeping existing chain h

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