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The price of ethereum classic (ETC) is pulling back as a result of a recently reported attack that resulted in a series of blockchain history rewrites. origin »
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Ethereum Proof-of-Work (PoW) network suffered a replay attack on September 18 as exploiters replayed a message from the Ethereum POS chain. The post Ethereum Proof-of-Work Suffers Replay Attack, Price Tanks 18% appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-9-18 19:02 | |
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Crypto-hackers are known to spot the slightest of vulnerabilities in networks to take advantage of, often with varying results. The last 24 hours saw Ethereum emerge as a target for one or some of theThe post Ethereum evades attack as 'client diversity' comes to the fore appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-9-15 09:30 | |
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Blockchain researchers from Harvard University proposed two dishonest strategies to attack Ethereum 2.0
2021-3-31 18:18 | |
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Ethereum Classic has suffered a 4,000-block long reorganization, its second such incident in five days. The first attack, which saw more than 3,000 blocks reorged, saw an attacker steal more than 800,000 ETC, worth about $5.6 million.
2020-8-6 08:10 | |
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The Ethereum (ETH) blockchain survived what appeared to be an intentional attack on December 31, which reportedly came very close to bringing down the entire network. Liam Aharon, an Australia-based blockchain developer, confirmed that the attack exploited a software glitch in a widely-used Ethereum client, called Parity.
2020-1-2 13:59 | |
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The recent 51% hack suffered by Ethereum classic known as the brother of ethereum the second rated Cryptocurrency on the 5th of January has thrown the crypto market into speculation of more 51% attack taking place.
2019-1-10 11:02 | |
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Ethereum Classic, an offshoot of Ethereum with an overall market capitalization of $531 million, suffered a 51% attack, which led to double spend. At press time, the asset is trading at $5. 05, marking a drop of almost 10% within the last 48 hours.
2019-1-10 09:35 | |
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Several sources reported yesterday that the “original Ethereum”, more commonly known as Ethereum Classic, is being subjected to chain reorganization. This reorganization can be done by a malicious player who owns more than half of targeted network’s mining hash rate and is thus called a “51% attack”.
2019-1-9 03:06 | |
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In the last couple of days, one of the top 20 cryptocoins Ethereum Classic suffered a dreaded 51% attack on their blockchain. This event reminded us of the fragile state of smaller proof of work coins that could be attacked if bunch of kids pooled their allowance money and started renting hashing power from NiceHash.
2019-1-8 08:39 | |
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Cryptocurrency, Ethereum Classic (ETC)–In a bizarre twist for the story developing around Ethereum Classic, developers for the ETC token are now making the claim that the blockchain has not experienced a 51 percent attack, in addition to denying the presence of a double spend.
2019-1-8 06:54 | |
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The Ethereum Classic (ETC) allegedly 51% attack continues to generate confusion among market participants. Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency related platforms in the market, wrote in a blog post a few hours ago that it detected a deep chain reorganization of the Ethereum Classic blockchain.
2019-1-8 04:48 | |
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Ethereum Classic experienced a vicious 51 percent attack that allowed attackers to conduct eleven deep chain reorganizations and double-spend 88,500 ETC, worth over $400,000. In response to the attack, the price of ETC has plummeted and services using the cryptocurrency have halted.
2019-1-8 03:23 | |
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Ethereum Classic devs announce that a hashpower consolidation on the ETC network is “not [a] 51% attack”
2019-1-8 23:54 | |
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Ethereum classic's blockchain has been hit by a suspected 51 percent attack, leading to reorganizations of its transaction history.
2019-1-8 23:19 | |
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Ethereum Classic, the original unforked Ethereum blockchain, has suffered a 51% attack resulting in nearly half a million dollars worth of double spends according to Coinbase. Coinbase detected the deep chain reorganizations over the weekend, forcing the cryptocurrency firm to freeze all Ethereum Classic transactions on their trading platforms and other products and services.
2019-1-8 23:00 | |
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As reported by TheBlock, Ethereum Classic, the smart contact platform, appears to be experiencing a block reorganization attack (reorg), according to according to blockchain explorer and mining pool, Etherchain.
2019-1-7 22:53 | |
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The network has asked exchanges and mining pools to up confirmation times on transactions.
2019-1-8 21:09 | |
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Nearly $1M In Bitcoin (BTC) Stolen An anonymous hacker (or consortium of hackers) have purportedly stolen nearly $1 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC), reports technology media outlet ZDNet. Per the report, the Electrum Wallet, a popular open-source project founded in mid-June 2011, was breached in a “clever attack.
2018-12-28 23:09 | |
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Ethereum may be under attack, the Netherlands sets up crypto licensing scheme, and Allianz chief has no time for crypto.
2018-12-13 03:38 | |
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Bitcoin Cash SV (BSV), the altcoin born after the fork of Bitcoin Cash, seems not to be as secure as Craig Wright says as some hours ago a user reportedly was able to double spend his coins in a “0-conf transaction”.
2018-12-9 07:03 | |
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The U. S. Justice Department recently announced the indictment of two Iranians involved in a high-profile Bitcoin ransomware attack. Iranian Hackers Collect Bitcoin as Ransom According to a report by The Washington Post, the Justice Department of the United States on Wednesday (November 28) announced the indictment of two Iranian nationals involved in cryptocurrency ransomware attacks, […] The post Bitcoin Ransomware: The U.
2018-11-29 12:16 | |
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A newly discovered vulnerability on Ethereum allowing for malicious GasToken Minting was found. The development team already acknowledged the issue and informed most of the affected users on November 13, 2018, via private disclosure.
2018-11-24 18:00 | |
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Gas Token, a technology that allows the storing of gas for the future, may be open to a smart contract vulnerability.
2018-11-23 23:39 | |
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A bug centering around a new Ethereum token, GasToken, which was enabling abuse on cryptocurrency exchanges, appears to have been resolved. The details are provided in a report originally published on November 13, 2018, that discussed how the bug was exploited by attackers, and what digital platforms could do if they wished to protect their hot wallet funds.
2018-11-22 00:34 | |
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The cryptocurrency sector is currently facing a brutal bearish attack –possibly the fiercest it’s seen in years. As a result, the big dogs like Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Monero (XMR), Stellar Lumens(XLM), and Tron (TRX) have lost over 10 percent of their value in the last week. In fact, Bitcoin (BTC) has had a seen […]
2018-11-21 18:29 | |
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Target Twitter Account Hacked To Promote Bitcoin (BTC) Scam On Tuesday morning, reports arose that crypto-centric Twitter hackers scored their biggest win yet — hijacking Target’s official account, which sports a casual 1.
2018-11-14 04:25 | |
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Latest Ethereum News According to Vin Armani, the founder of CoinText, CoinGeek and Craig Wright have a sinister plan for Bitcoin Cash ABC and other proof of work public blockchains as Ethereum. He claims that Craig and Calvin plan to launch a 51 percent attack of the Bitcoin Cash ABC network.
2018-11-13 05:15 | |
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Switzerland-based Trade. io Suffers Devastating Hack, Cold Wallet Affected In hand-to-hand fist fights, it is not like gentlemen to kick their opponents while they are already down. However, in the emerging cryptocurrency market, which has been bashed by violent sell-offs in the past nine months, malicious actors still seem poised to attack, hack, and steal from […] The post $7.
2018-10-23 03:28 | |
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Cryptocurrency, Investing–Cryptocurrency has long been under attack for a number common faults found with the industry. Many economists, including Nobel Prize winning academics, focus on the viability of crypto as a source of money as an alternative to traditional fiat.
2018-10-19 03:34 | |
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There is this other side of crypto. It’s dark and full of dead coins. It keeps piling up every time ETH or BTC print lower. Though the market is expecting a rally with Ran Neur listing a couple of indicators to justify his bullish stand, Einsteinium coin creators and “community” should be having a hard […] The post It Costs $20 to Launch a 51 percent Attack on Einsteinium and Less than $200 to Force a Hard Fork in Feathercoin appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2018-10-9 14:59 | |
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Cryptocurrency, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)–Initial coin offerings, the controversial but effective method for raising funds for new cryptocurrency projects which has managed to dominate the industry, is under attack yet again for its volatile investment scheme, lack of regulation and overall trust-less presentation.
2018-10-8 23:38 | |
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Think you know the ins-and-outs of bitcoin? Test yourself with 30 questions that grill you on Bitcoin’s history, technology and politics. The 30 questions are split up into three segments ranging from novice to intermediate to expert, and cover a wide range of topics across the Bitcoin landscape.
2018-9-26 02:13 | |
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Over 30 years after creating eCash, a predecessor of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies which spawned the Cypherpunk movement of the 1980s, Dr. David Chaum is back in the public eye with a claim of having invented “the world’s fastest cryptocurrency.
2018-9-22 23:59 | |
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Last week, the Czechs witnessed a very peculiar political debate. The issue of crypto-mining was used as an argument for political attack seeking to discredit a minority party that criticized the inefficiency of the Czech administration.
2018-9-21 15:41 | |
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Vitalik Proposes New Consensus Algorithm That Makes a 51% Attack Impossible Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum’s co-founder, has released a very complex paper in which he proposes a new consensus algorithm that eliminates the risk of a 51% attack.
2018-8-13 19:37 | |
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While cryptocurrency prices have taken a tumble, with valuations falling by upwards of 70%, ransomware still seems to be a medium of attack for cryptocurrency-focused hackers. As per an article from Golfweek, the Professional Golfers Association, a group of the best golfers from around the globe, has fallen under a cyberattack.
2018-8-10 21:51 | |
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The Ethereum blockchain seems to be under some sort of attack by a network spamming that is causing congestion within the network which in turn, has had a negative impact on the base fee for the verification of an Ethereum transaction.
2018-8-9 23:00 | |
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The Ethereum network is experiencing copious transactions all connected to a single account, leading to broad speculation about their purpose.
2018-8-8 01:03 | |
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This past week, we talked to three security experts about how to design smarter and more secure smart contracts. Google is dipping its toe in the blockchain waters by introducing integrations for applications built with Ethereum and Hyperledger.
2018-8-5 16:08 | |
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On July 10, 2018, news broke that cryptocurrency wallet and decentralized exchange Bancor was hit with a hack. A wallet the Bancor team used to update the protocol’s smart contracts was infiltrated, and the $23.
2018-8-3 19:24 | |
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EOS (EOS) network has outstripped its key competitor Ethereum (ETH) in terms of transaction volume, but the surge was driven by a spam attack.
2018-7-31 21:44 | |
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On July 23, 2018, the most popular Ethereum block explorer site Etherescan. io was hit malicious attack. According to Motherboard, the hackers were able to use the website’s comments section to introduce malicious code.
2018-7-29 03:00 | |
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KICKICO was just another Initial Coin Offering (ICO) that was supposed to launch on top of the Ethereum blockchain. However, the project was hacked on July 27th and this made it lose more than 70 million KICK tokens, worth about 7.
2018-7-27 22:06 | |
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Suspected hackers have successfully managed to attack another cryptocurrency project, this time, KickICO. The attackers were able to steal 70 million KICK which has a market value of about $7. 7 million.
2018-7-27 18:56 | |
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Visitors to the Etherscan. io website were panicking on Monday when faced with a pop-up indicating that the site had been hacked. The popular Ethereum blockchain-explorer quickly fixed the breach and no data was compromised — this time.
2018-7-26 22:00 | |
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Etherscan, the most widely used Ethereum blockchain explorer, has quickly patched security vulnerabilities overnight as hackers exploited certain parts of its service. Hackers successfully manipulated the Disqus API – a third-party service used by Etherscan that allows for comments to be left on Ethereum wallet addresses.
2018-7-24 13:00 | |
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Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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According to Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum’s recent spam congestion transactions have racked up at least $15 million in gas fees. Facing record congestion in the form of soaring gas fees and pending transaction times, the Ethereum network has been recently stung with a gas price manipulation attack caused by thousands of spurious transactions.
2018-7-19 08:00 | |
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Vitalik Buterin confirmed suspicions that the recent overload of the Ethereum network was the result of a spam attack, and suggested that it costed to attackers about $15 million.
2018-7-19 22:19 | |
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TLDR: Ethereum Classic price has gone up to 3. 2% in the last seven days and 16. 4% in the last month. According to recent data, the number of ApeCoin active addresses has soared to the highest point in more than six months.
Ethereum Classic is up 18% in the week The network has witnessed an increased hash rate Ethereum Classic still faces bear pressure at $19 Ethereum Classic (ETC/USD) has been of bull interest in the last two days.
There is no sign of an ETF launch approval in the U.S. as yet, with Europe soon to see a pioneering Bitcoin futures product.
When Bitcoin (BTC) drops, other cryptocurrencies drop even more. But some assets erased more value, showing their relatively fragile market gains. BTC Crash Triggered Downward Spiral for Altcoins On Thursday, BTC prices flash-crashed by about 7%.
Ethereum Classic (ETC) had its best week in the last year, as investors took the coin into the top ten of cryptocurrencies by market cap. The event followed the recent hard fork titled Agharta, which includes features of the Ethereum (ETH) Constantinople fork.
Recently, Ethereum Classic [ETC] successfully executed its Atlantis hard fork, a hard fork which included about 10 Ethereum Improvement Proposals [EIPs] in order to enhance stability and performance.
In June, Ethereum Classic announced that the Atlantis hard fork was in its testing stage. Now, the hard fork is expected to take place between 11-13 September, when its block height reaches 8,772,000.