Massive Bitcoin Vulnerability Discovered That Could Have Seen The End Of BTC

Massive Bitcoin Vulnerability Discovered That Could Have Seen The End Of BTC
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2018-9-21 06:00

Developers from the Bitcoin Core project seem to have discovered a vulnerability that could have seen the end of Bitcoin. To put a long story short, the entire Bitcoin blockchain was at risk of being pulled down by one single DDos attack.

DDoS, or Distributed-Denial-of-Service attacks occur when an operator floods blockchain nodes with incredible amounts of traffic, this disrupts service and simply put, the nodes can’t handle the level of traffic.

The same sort of attacks are common on websites and servers, as they allow hackers to totally deny service to websites and other networks.

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