This Is Why Some Bitcoin Core Nodes Can Stop Building Blocks
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A bug in Bitcoin Core can cause some nodes to stop building new blocks after accepting transactions that spend outputs not yet available to them, invalidating their block templates. The issue affects miners running affected node versions, whose template-construction logic can produce blocks that fail validity checks, though the underlying network and chain history remain unaffected. It matters because stalled template generation can delay a miner's block production and reduce its effective hashrate until the node is fixed or restarted. Watch for a patched Bitcoin Core release and for mining pools to report whether they experienced template failures or missed blocks.
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