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Shutter Network core contributor Loring Harkness tells The Agenda podcast that MEV attacks are making crypto unfair and insecure for everyday users. origin »
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Jamming attacks on Bitcoin's Lightning Network, akin to DDoS attacks, haven't been carried out yet. But mitigation is needed.
2021-11-5 02:00 | |
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Ethereum (ETH) rose by over 9% to reach a new high on Friday. This was days after the network underwent the Altair upgrade successfully. ETH, the native token of the second-largest blockchain by markeThe post The three types of attacks Ethereum could face in its proof-of-stake avatar appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-11-1 00:30 | |
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For all its growth and evolution, the cryptocurrency ecosystem isn't immune from all kinds of attacks. In fact, there have been several such cases in the past. Needless to say, however, different ecosThe post Polygon network introduces 'a small change' to tackle spam transactions appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-10-6 19:00 | |
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Solana (SOL/USD) is a growing blockchain network and one of the go-to alternatives to Ethereum when it comes to different development platforms. However, the project recently suffered a major 17-hour outage which it suffered last week, without any indication that something like this is about to happen.
2021-9-22 17:09 | |
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The Ethereum network is facing a chain split after an exploit forced over 50% of its nodes to upgrade their client to prevent further attacks. This security vulnerability was detected, reported, and fixed by Go Ethereum, developers of the affected client, Geth.
2021-8-28 21:23 | |
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Why does a seemingly abandoned MIT project from 2016 still matter in 2021? Because MIT ChainAnchor serves as a model for future attacks to the Bitcoin blockchain. A decentralized, permissionless, and uncensorable network is a threat to the status quo.
2021-8-22 01:16 | |
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Bitcoin SV has been under the hammer of rogue actors in a series of attempted 51% attacks against the network. Where next for BSV?
2021-8-7 15:53 | |
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Bitcoin SV is in trouble once again after Coinbase announced that it will be halting BSV trading on the platform. This update came on the back of a string of attacks the network has been facing since The post Coinbase halts Bitcoin SV trading after yet another 51% attack appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-8-5 00:30 | |
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Bitcoin SV’s price was shaken briefly as its community continued to digest the news that the cryptocurrency suffered a 51% breach. Following the news of the attack on the network, Coinbase stopped trading the cryptocurrency on the exchange platform.
2021-8-5 23:30 | |
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Due to the 51% attack, which the Bitcoin Association says is currently going on and law enforcement authorities have been reported, Coinbase has halted BSV withdrawals and stopped all BSV trading.
2021-8-5 16:23 | |
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Most DeFi users have heard of Ethereum’s high congestion issues, but few are aware of the controlling forces operating behind the scenes, and how badly they can be impacted by this single problem. When traders send a regular transaction via the Ethereum network, it is susceptible to attacks from bots or front-running software run by […]
2021-6-22 20:52 | |
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The ETC network has been ensnared in a proposed algorithm shift to boost its security. The network has been quite vulnerable to 51% attacks in the past, and hence, to augment its security, ECIP 1049 pThe post This change on Ethereum Classic's network could 'make it bigger than Bitcoin and Ethereum' appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-6-17 11:00 | |
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In recent days, the Binance Smart Chain network has been a hotspot for flash loan attacks. There have been multiple attacks on popular liquidity protocols like PancakeBunny and Bogged Finance, resulting in losses worth millions of dollars.
2021-6-3 14:00 | |
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Following a series of high-profile, multimillion hacker attacks on several decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms based on Binance Smart Chain, the network has issued an official “call for action” to developers.
2021-6-1 07:00 | |
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“If you’re not a green hacker, and you’re not doing it for the planet, you can also do it for the money: by speculating downward on the price of Bitcoin before launching attacks.”
2021-2-10 05:48 | |
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The potential for “griefing” attacks on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is a serious threat. Here’s how they work and why they deserve a fix. The post Good Griefing: A Lingering Vulnerability On Lightning Network That Still Needs Fixing appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2021-1-19 01:17 | |
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The U. S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a warning that alerts financial institutions in the United States about increasing ransomware attacks against coronavirus vaccine research organizations.
2020-12-31 03:30 | |
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After crossing the 11. 7 million block height milestone, Ethereum Classic (ETC) has undergone a hard fork to bring about the anticipated Thanos upgrade. The Ethereum fork has suffered numerous security issues with multiple 51% attacks and proponents are hoping the new Thanos upgrade will provide much-needed network fidelity while allowing GPU-based mining to continue.
2020-11-30 18:01 | |
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Tokens could be included in a users traffic request, which would allow websites accessible through the Tor network to “intelligently prioritize which requests it answers.”
2020-11-19 01:58 | |
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Ethereum Classic (ETC) Labs — the code maintainer and non-profit behind the Ethereum fork — announced its partnership with two cybersecurity firms to prevent the repeated 51% attacks that the Ethereum Classic network suffers from.
2020-9-23 21:00 | |
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After multiple 51% attacks, Ethereum Classic (ETC) developers working towards making the project’s network more resistant to blockchain reorganization (reorg) exploits. Proof-of-Work (PoW) blockchains with significantly smaller network effect remain vulnerable to malicious reorg attacks.
2020-9-19 20:53 | |
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Swisscom Blockchain, the blockchain tech arm of Swiss telco giant, Swisscom, received a grant from Web 3 Foundation to build guard operators for Polkadot’s and Kusama’s nodes and validators. In a blog post released on Wednesday, Swisscom Blockchain’s Kubernetes Operator will enhance the robustness of both chains making them, “less prone to attacks on network […] The post Web3 Foundation Awards Grant to Swisscom Blockchain To Secure Polkadot PoS Network first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2020-9-12 18:56 | |
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Hash power broker Nicehash denies that it enables bad actors to use its hash renting platform to launch 51% attacks on blockchain networks. The broker insists that it does not have any way of monitoring or determining which blockchain is benefitting from a particular algorithm hash data.
2020-9-9 15:30 | |
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Three 51% attacks on the Ethereum Classic network have not yet made a significant impact on the price of its cryptocurrency.
2020-9-9 23:57 | |
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A new trojan called Krypto Cibule uses infested computers’ power to mine cryptocurrency, steal crypto wallet files, and redirect incoming digital assets to a hacker address. The malware rides on the Tor network and the Bittorrent protocol to perform attacks, according to an extensive report by cybersecurity company, ESET.
2020-9-4 12:30 | |
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After suffering a couple of 51% attacks, Ethereum Classic (ETC) Labs is planning to adopt measures that would protect its network from similar attacks in the future. ETC Goes After NiceHash Amid Multiple 51% Attacks In a Medium blog post on Monday, ETC Labs announced that it would involve regulators globally and law enforcement agenciesRead MoreRead More.
2020-9-3 14:01 | |
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The leading organization supporting the Ethereum Classic network hopes to better safeguard against future 51% attacks by going after platforms that rent out hashing power.
2020-9-2 12:03 | |
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Cardano has been moving steadily along its long-term development plan, launching Shelly last month while the Ethereum Classic network had revamped its security measures to prevent further attacks afteThe post Cardano, Stellar, Ethereum Classic Price Analysis: 25 August appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-8-26 21:00 | |
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The Ethereum Classic Labs, which is the incubator for the Ethereum Classic blockchain, has announced an ambitious plan to keep the platform secure. In a tweet, ETC Labs stated that they were implementing immediate improvements to the network following the recent 51% attacks where hackers made away with approximately $7.
2020-8-21 16:44 | |
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In a published document on August 19, the ETC accelerator, Ethereum Classic Labs, released proposed solutions to further secure the network after two successive 51% attacks earlier in the month. The proposed plan, as mentioned before, will roll out in the next three to six months, with some of the security measures coming immediately. Immediate […]
2020-8-21 00:15 | |
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Major changes could be coming to the network.
2020-8-20 13:59 | |
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Several crypto exchanges are monitoring Ethereum Classic to decide whether to delist the coin after its recent two major 51% attacks that saw the network lose over $5.6 million in double-spending. Both attacks, which took place between July 31 and 6 august saw the hacker make off with 807,260 ETC. The high sophistication level of […]
2020-8-19 00:22 | |
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Multiple Ethereum Classic blockchain attacks leave significant discussions on what actually happened.
2020-8-17 16:15 | |
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Биржа Coinbase увеличила время подтверждения депозитов Ethereum Classic (ETC) до двух недель. Меры связаны с недавней серией атак 51% на сеть этой криптовалюты. Given the recent network attacks on Ethereum Classic, we have increased the confirmation time for ETC sent to Coinbase & Coinbase Pro to ~2 weeks.
2020-8-10 11:18 | |
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Coinbase will delay all Ethereum Classic (ETC) transactions after the network suffered two 51% attacks last week, with hackers stealing millions in ETC. The post Coinbase delays Ethereum Classic transactions after two 51% attacks appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2020-8-9 01:01 | |
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This past week Ethereum Classic suffered not one, but two 51% attacks. The culprits were able to make off with millions as a result. While this doesn’t directly cause the underlying network to slow, due to the attacks this cryptocurrency’s confirmation times have increased drastically.
2020-8-9 22:00 | |
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Ethereum Classic has experienced two 51% attacks in the past two years, suggesting low overall network security. As the network hash rate continues to decline, future 51% attacks become a greater possibility as the cost for an attack also continues to decline.
2020-8-5 15:01 | |
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Глава Binance Чанпэн Чжао в своем Твиттере сообщил о том, что сегодня «конкуренты» провели целенаправленные DDoS-атаки на биржу. Earlier today, our Chinese domains experienced targeted DDoS attacks, and users saw some lag and interruption of network access.
2020-4-30 07:11 | |
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Earlier today, the world’s largest exchange by volume, Binance, experienced downtime and network interruption. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao later confirmed that the exchange had actually been targeted by a number of denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), particularly on its Chinese domains.
2020-4-30 21:57 | |
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Binance founder and CEO, Changpeng Zhao confirmed via Twitter that the Chinese domains of the leading cryptocurrency exchange suffered “targeted DDoS attacks. ” As such users experienced some lag and interruption of network access.
2020-4-29 17:25 | |
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Китайские домены биржи криптовалют Binance подверглись «направленной DDoS-атаке» в эту среду. Earlier today, our Chinese domains experienced targeted DDoS attacks, and users saw some lag and interruption of network access.
2020-4-29 12:39 | |
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With so much innovation going on in the space, DeFi has become a big rising star over the years. In a more recent milestone, DeFi apps on the Ethereum network hit an all-time high of $1.21 billion on The post DeFi attacks reignite centralization dilemma, debates on protocol reliability appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-2-26 22:30 | |
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Bitcoin's lightning network is growing "increasingly centralized," making it more susceptible to attacks, asserts a new paper by security researchers.
2020-2-21 23:30 | |
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A report published February 7 and authored in part by Blockstream researcher Christian Decker found that the BTC Lightning Network is “evolving towards an increasingly centralised architecture.
2020-2-19 10:59 | |
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The 51 percent attack Bitcoin Gold experienced last week sparked an industry-wide debate about the security of the network. Many saw this as proof of BTG’s redundancy, but few focused on the problems in proof-of-work itself that enable these kinds of attacks to happen in the first place.
2020-1-27 21:06 | |
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The Bitcoin Gold (BTG) network suffered another set of 51% attacks on January 23-24, as roughly 29 blocks were removed in two deep blockchain reorganizations (reorgs). Reports indicate that more than 7,000 BTG was double spent as the chain suffered a loss of $70,000 in two days.
2020-1-27 22:30 | |
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The closing of 4 nodes out of a total of 10 allows Sybill attacks to happen in an open network. Hedera Hashgraph is known to run public nodes, yet the Council Nodes are the ones that decide resources and software updates for the network.
2020-1-1 20:37 | |
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The Lightning Network (LN) may be controlled and ordered by Watchtowers in the future. Watchtowers are guided by Blockstream’s c-Lightning team and would be a very important improvement on the Lightning Network, the second-layer scaling solution proposed to solve Bitcoin’s scalability issues.
2019-12-21 21:18 | |
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There are many different ways for hackers to attack the cryptocurrency sector, but dusting attacks are perhaps the most seemingly harmless. This type of attack sends a small number of coins to a few known addresses, which wouldn’t move the market by much.
2019-12-16 16:33 | |
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Fireblocks users can now earn yield on their BTC holdings via BOB's network
Regulatory clarity may provide a boost for DeFi projects.
Team Rizzo, which operates Bittensor subnets and validator services, has snagged $25 million in on-chain cover from Native, a digital asset insurance specialist.
Zero-knowledge proofs and reputation systems could reshape compliance and preserve privacy in DeFi.
The launch of the LIBRA token has sparked controversy in the Solana ecosystem, seeing Meteora co-founder Ben Chow resign and Jupiter launch an investigation.
Binance suspended US dollar deposits in June 2023, shortly after being sued by the SEC.