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BTCPay Server vulnerability acknowledgement and safety steps

btcpayserver-2085771939008667869

https://x.com/btcpayserver/status/2085771939008667869

Captured screenshot of the post by @btcpayserver, posted 7 Aug 2026, 16:55 UTC
@btcpayserver posted captured full-size capture → original post →
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The BTCPay Server account thanks the Bitcoin Red Team for a responsible security disclosure and gives concrete post-update steps: refresh macaroons and macaroons.db, refresh auth strings for other LN backends, and move funds from any hot on-chain BTCPay wallet before recreating it. Held as an organisational incident-response statement about a vulnerability disclosed during the Coldcard-response week. The disclosure details and remediation steps are the poster's own and are not verified here.

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