[2017-08-07]Supporters of Bitcoin Cash have announced a planned attack on the ne

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[2017-08-07]Supporters of Bitcoin Cash have announced a planned attack on the ne

August 07, 2017, 08:00:51 AM

Last weekend, a planned attack on the Bitcoin Cash network has carried out, during which unknown attackers used vulnerability of transaction malleability. This announced Chinese mining pool ViaBTC.

Transaction malleability due to the cryptographic trick, that changes a signature of a transaction, but without changing this signature means...

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Re: [2017-08-07]Supporters of Bitcoin Cash have announced a planned attack on the ne

August 07, 2017, 08:18:58 AM

Original article likely written in Chinese. The headline should have been: "Bitcoin Cash alerts users of coordinated attacks on its network"

What's really interesting from the article is the near-admission of Suprnova and an apparent intervention of hashpower from the unknown entity. I really didn't expect anyone with that much resources to be so motivated against BCC.

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Re: [2017-08-07]Supporters of Bitcoin Cash have announced a planned attack on the ne

August 07, 2017, 04:38:56 PM

This article sounds like an automated translation of something and is pretty much unintelligible.

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