THELOGICALINDIAN - Accidentprone altcoin border has been bedridden by yet addition mining advance A little over a ages afterwards actuality subjected to a 51 advance the arrangement is already afresh at the benevolence of a bad-natured antagonist who is abnegation blocks and profiting amply off the annihilation acquired The echo advance illustrates the risks faced by low hashrate Proof of Work coins
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On the morning of May 22, Suprvona, one of the better altcoin mining pools, informed its 19,000 Twitter followers that border was adversity yet another 51% attack, causing all blocks to be rejected. The advance was spotted by the aforementioned alone who baldheaded the antecedent advance in April. In a column on the Bitcointalk forum, “ocminer” wrote: “Since annihilation absolutely was done about the antecedent attacks (only a band-aid), the attackers now artlessly use two algos to angle the alternation for their own use and are accepting millions”.
The article amenable was bogus in $1,000 a minute and is believed to accept fabricated $1.7 actor already from the attack. Predictably, verge’s admirers assigned the attacker’s motivations to “an act of hate” advised to FUD their altcoin. This approach acquired abbreviate shrift on the Bitcointalk forum, with one commenter retorting: “Verge is actuality targeted because it has shitty coding and an amateur developer. This drudge is the aftereffect of the abhorrent job he did ‘patching’ the antecedent hack.” The aboriginal advance complex base one of the bristles hashing algorithms border uses (most cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin alone use one). This time about the antagonist is believed to accept acclimated two algos afterwards renting ability from a account such as Nicehash and again application it to acquisition all the new blocks.
Followers of the official Verge Twitter account, meanwhile, will accept had no abstraction why their bread is dumping, because the aggregation doesn’t like to allotment bad news:
As understatements go, that cheep is appropriate up there with the account’s antecedent one in affiliation to aftermost month’s attack.
Verge: Good for Porn, Bad for Everything Else
Verge (XVG) has had a roller-coaster year to say the least. Despite pumping off the account of a above paid partnership, which transpired to be with Pornhub, it’s been rocked by mining attacks. As one redditor quipped on r/Cryptocurrency, the antagonist “is accepting his lifetime porn hub membership”. Only canicule ago, a Chinese bureau ranked verge’s blockchain akin with bitcoin itself, agreement it collective 13th out of 28 cryptocurrencies.
The amount of XVG has alone decidedly back the advance came to light, apery that of bitcoin gold, which was hit by an almost identical attack four canicule ago, arch to bifold absorb attacks and banishment the BTG aggregation to affair a admonishing to exchanges to be active to ample counterfeit deposits actuality made. Incidents such as these allegorize the adversity of accepting abate PoW chains. It is not extraordinary that a time ability access back alone BTC, BCH, and a scattering of added chains of agenda are anchored by PoW, with bottom altcoins affected to drift to Proof of Stake to abate 51% attacks.
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