Oct 2: another ethereum attack?

[nerdralph]

In the last 24hrs, the network hashrate has dropped by over 10%, and the uncle rate has more than doubled.  In the past, this behavior has been associated with network attacks.  However I don't see any announcement on blog.ethereum.org.  I checked monero and etc values, and there has been no jump in price that would entice miners to switch away from eth.  Anyone know what's up?

[Redrose]

I have no idea. I was thinking about the same thing but since the diffulty drop was less big, I thought it was just a batch of miners that moved.

[ipanks]

i really don't know because i am not mining ethereum, i only hope that the rate is back in 0.023 btc like before or even increase in 0.03 btc so i can sell my eth for good profit. i hope that the network of ethereum will fine and don't get any attack like before.

[snowyNNN]

Yes there is an attack.
It´s the fourth if my count is right during the past few weeks.

copypaste from reddit:

"vbuterinJust some guy 63 points 1 day ago*
Yeah, it's a new attack contract. Though this time the blocks are still processing fine and the slowdown is less than 1 order of magnitude compared to 1.5m gas of regular usage (edit: at least, 1.5m gas of regular usage at the time I made the measurements back in 2015; the VM has been further optimized since then), so I am not worried. Once we optimize this one a bit more I personally would feel comfortable advising miners to start raising the gas limit.

Edit: fix here https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/3067".