THELOGICALINDIAN - Reports appearance that the Bitcoinsv blockchain suffered from a 51 advance on Tuesday August 3 2024 as the architect of Blockchair Nikita Zhavoronkov explained the arrangement endured a 100 block reorg wiping out 570k affairs
Onchain Observers Witness a Deep Bitcoinsv Reorg
The Bitcoinsv (BSV) arrangement has been accepting issues afresh afterward problems the agreement saw in mid-July. At that time, 78% of the arrangement was mined by a distinct article alleged Taal and a cardinal of barter providers apoplectic services. On August 3, the architect of Blockchair, Nikita Zhavoronkov, and abundant onchain assemblage apparent the BSV alternation suffered from a abysmal blockchain reorganization, contrarily accepted as a reorg.
Zhavoronkov tweeted about the affair on Tuesday and again antiseptic that the alternation absent 100 blocks. “The reorg was 100 (!) blocks abysmal wiping out 570k transactions,” the Blockchair architect said. The onchain analysts at Coin Metrics caught the reorg as able-bodied alongside Lucas Nuzzi who additionally tweeted about the problems BSV had on Tuesday.
“BSV is activity through a massive 51% attack,” Nuzzi said. “After an attempted advance yesterday, some austere hashing ability was unleashed today at 11:46AM and attackers are succeeding. Over a dozen blocks are actuality reorgd & up to 3 versions of the alternation actuality mined accompanying beyond pools.”
Bitcoinsv Group Addresses Situation, Claims It’s Marking ‘Illegal Chains’
A affiliate of the Bitcoin Association (a BSV-related org.), Alex Speirs, appear the BSV ancillary of the adventure on August 4. The announcement is alleged a “Statement on August 2021 block re-organisation advance on the Bitcoin SV network.”
“The Bitcoin SV arrangement is currently constant an advancing alternation of block re-organisation attacks by a awful amateur attempting to illegally double-spend BSV coins,” Speirs wrote on Wednesday. “Bitcoin Association believes that this is the aforementioned antagonist that ahead accomplished block re-organisation attacks adjoin the BSV arrangement on June 24 and July 1, 6 & 9, 2021.”
According to Speirs, the Bitcoin Affiliation (BSV) and the Bitcoin SV Infrastructure Team acclaim that bulge operators “mark actionable chains accomplished by the antagonist as invalid.” Moreover, Speirs emphasized that the BSV affiliation will aggregate affirmation on such matters. Speirs said:
2 Illegal Chains, Ecash Reorgs Remembered
At the time of writing, abstracts from Coin Dance shows the miner Taal has 47.6% of the BSV hashrate and 27% belongs to alien stealth miners. Taal is advised an honest and careful mining abettor aural the BSV community.
The mining abettor Taal has been able to abduction 15 blocks in a row while this commodity was written. According to the blog column accounting by Speirs which additionally contains developing updates: “In the aftermost 12 hours, two actionable chains created by the antagonist accept been auspiciously repelled.”
At the end of November 2020, the Bitcoin ABC pro-IFP chain, which was nameless at the time, saw a abundant cardinal of reorgs authoritative the alternation about unusable. A abstruseness mining article at the time that alleged itself “Voluntarism.dev” mined a abundant cardinal of after abandoned blocks and fabricated it so no one could transact with the bread which is now alleged “ecash.”
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