<p>I've done a little research on this as it was a big concern, not to worry! This is only an issue if you have a bitcoin (or altcoin) daemon set up with RPC over HTTPS. This would only be used if say, you have a daemon running on one VPS and another node which asks it to send money. Source: <a href="http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/openssl-heartbleed-security-bug/2014/04/08">http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/openssl-heartbleed-security-bug/2014/04/08</a></p>

<p>This is disabled by default and unless you were using RPC over SSL there is no need to worry :)</p>

<p>If you have been using RPC for any coin I would say a good practice would be to generate a new wallet and send funds there.</p>

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<p>Bitcoin recently released V 0.9.1 patching vulnerabilities from the Heartbleed bug, however I have not seen anything from any alt coin. What are the possible security risks associated with using these coins? And what are the risks to the coins themselves?</p>

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Heartbleed bug and Altcoins
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# Heartbleed bug and Altcoins

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-04-10)

Bitcoin recently released V 0.9.1 patching vulnerabilities from the Heartbleed bug, however I have not seen anything from any alt coin. What are the possible security risks associated with using these coins? And what are the risks to the coins themselves?

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### Answer by username_0 on 2014-04-13. Score: 6 | Accepted answer

I've done a little research on this as it was a big concern, not to worry! This is only an issue if you have a bitcoin (or altcoin) daemon set up with RPC over HTTPS. This would only be used if say, you have a daemon running on one VPS and another node which asks it to send money. Source: <http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/openssl-heartbleed-security-bug/2014/04/08>

This is disabled by default and unless you were using RPC over SSL there is no need to worry :)

If you have been using RPC for any coin I would say a good practice would be to generate a new wallet and send funds there.


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