THELOGICALINDIAN - Shortly afterwards the newlyforked Bitcoin Cash ABC BCHA arrangement went alive an alien miner disrupted the arrangement by mining abandoned blocks
Bitcoin Cash ABC (BCHA), the aftereffect of the contempo Bitcoin Cash (BCH) adamantine fork, has witnessed an advance area a distinct miner is abolition the network.
Bitcoin Cash Fork Under Attack
Experts are calling it a abnegation of account (DoS) advance aimed at abolition the blockchain.
The advance originated from an alien mining article that has been mining abandoned blocks on the Bitcoin Cash ABC alternation for added than a week.
An abandoned block alone contains the block accolade transaction (as apparent above), and all added affairs are excluded, arrest the arrangement to action normally.
The adventure was aboriginal appear by Nikita Zhavoronkov, the advance developer at Blockchair, who said it is acutely awful behavior.
The ambition abaft the advance is still unknown. Adding to the mystery, the antagonist additionally broadcasted a message which warned of an accessible “bcha dump” on Nov. 25.
Low Hash Rate, Few Miners Led to the Attack
On Nov. 15, a Bitcoin Cash (BCH) blockchain angle took place, consistent in a new blockchain alleged Bitcoin Cash ABC (BCHA). After the BCHA alternation went live, alone a few mining pools were active, consistent in a low arrangement hashrate.
At columnist time, BCHA’s hashrate is 0.12 Eh/s, which is beneath than 1/10th compared to BCH’s hashrate of 1.7 Eh/s. According to Zhavoronkov, the low hashrate may accept accustomed a distinct mining accumulation to ascendancy the network.
