Bitcoin Developer Peter Todd Slams Ripple Over XRPL Backdoor Flaw

  • Prominent Bitcoin developer Peter Todd, recently spotlighted as the most likely Satoshi Nakamoto in a 2024 HBO documentary, has criticized Ripple following the discovery of a backdoor in a JavaScript library used for the XRP Ledger (XRPL). The vulnerability, initially flagged by Aikido Security and acknowledged by Ripple CTO David Schwartz, allows private keys to be sent to a suspicious domainposing a serious threat to users of compromised versions of the XRPL SDK.