{"id":668982,"date":"2026-10-10T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=854877"},"modified":"2026-10-10T09:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T09:00:37","slug":"a-decade-old-xrp-ledger-bug-could-have-minted-xrp-out-of-thin-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/10\/a-decade-old-xrp-ledger-bug-could-have-minted-xrp-out-of-thin-air\/","title":{"rendered":"A Decade-Old XRP Ledger Bug Could Have Minted XRP Out of Thin Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ripple-1-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ripple logo\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>The XRP Ledger quietly patched a 2015-era payment engine flaw that could have let an attacker create spendable XRP beyond the network&#8217;s fixed supply for just a few hundred XRP in reserves. What Was Actually Broken? The problem sat inside the code that settles payments across the XRP Ledger&#8217;s built-in decentralized exchange (DEX). According to [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The XRP Ledger quietly patched a 2015-era payment engine flaw that could have let an attacker create spendable XRP beyond the network&#8217;s fixed supply for just a few hundred XRP in reserves. What Was Actually Broken? The problem sat inside the code that settles payments across the XRP Ledger&#8217;s built-in decentralized exchange (DEX). According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-668982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}