What made the old versions of the bitcoin wallet insecure?

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According to the downloads for the Bitcoin client, versions older than ~0.3.0 were "insecure". Since they are not available for download (and the lack of security is the given reason) no one can learn from them or verify the reason.

The question I have is, 1, does anyone have a copy of the original wallets and or their source code for download and, 2, does anyone know what made them insecure?

Mine

Posted 2014-05-11T17:54:15.437

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Answers

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The source code for old versions is available in the Bitcoin-Qt Git repository. Click on the "branch: master" button and then select "Tags", and you can go all the way back to v0.1.5.

Greg Hewgill

Posted 2014-05-11T17:54:15.437

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Thank you, didn't realize it was under tags. Still wondering what made them "insecure". – Mine – 2014-05-12T03:49:26.703

1@Mine For one thing, you can create transactions that create billions of Bitcoins, and that client will accept them without complaint. – Nick ODell – 2017-03-02T00:47:33.527

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