Network Attack on XVG / VERGE

[kkekoa]

Awesome write-up.  Thank you!

Edit:  Dang, if I can see it (with the help of the suprnova write-up, thank you again) that's bad.  Really bad.  I'm an old salt developer from the iterative days and it would seem to be a simple matter of having second time signal locked to USN atomic clocks and others as a control. 

[Roidz92]

I never liked this coin, it was too much suspicious for me.. this is the third time that the team asking for free money from users, this time they don't even announced for what exactly.. just a "partnership". Also basically only one guy is the main head of the project... and not counting the fact that verge say it is a privacy coin but has nothing more than other coins.. saying "use thor tobe anon" sounds quite hilarious..
Let's see if thry survive this time.

[skh00]

Problem with mining still going.
Network generate only orphan block again

[CA_TD_investor]

CryptoRekt - Yesterday at 11:54 PM
its because of OCminer that the entire fucking internet got on our ass
"herp derp lets make a public post"
Dumbass

LOL it's not because of anyone but your dumbass code. 
It reminds me of the safecoin people leaving the KMD notary node mining capabilities open and then bitching that "We were attacked".  Nope, you just don't understand your code.   
He made a public post because you blew a respected community member off about the issue.  Thank god I sold my XVG 3 months ago. 

[vit05]

We are seeing a project die in real time. Unfortunately many will lose money on this, but it was not for lack of warnings. Since the big boom with mcaffee twitter we see a great marketing plan from VERGE. But little was done to make the project work. Attacks are serious. Read the main concerns of Satoshi when it started. He wanted to build something that resisted the attacks, that would work forever.

[monix781]

noone believes until it's too late

[nrg_wolf]

Can someone elaborate whats happening. ExplainLikeim5. Thanks =)

Your best to read through the whole post to get a good understanding of what has happened.

On another note, this is hardly the first crypto to be hit like this and most probably won't be the last..... don't really see why people are freaking out so badly.... shit happens like this all the time.... Welcome to crypto.

Stop being so nonchalant. You're behaving like Sunerok. It's actually quite a big deal.

clearly you have not been in crypto that long lol..... i am not going to panic or worry.... a fix will be released as it has always been done with soo many different crypto coins. i have seen this happen so many times and everything has always recovered at the end of the day, may take weeks or months but it eventually recovers. the team is working on a fix just like many other coin devs did...

[Loveboard]

How does this thread have 12 pages of replies when it was literally just 24 hours old.

I believed in XVG a lot, thought it would surpass Monero and TRTL. But now I'm not so sure.

This seems like a significant problem and no other coin has experienced this.

I'm just wondering, but how many coins did the malicious miners get to mine with these 1-second blocks? If it's like a million verge or something... then wow maybe we should all exploit this!

If Sunerok doesn't think it's a big deal then that means it's okay right? And the instructions are right there in OP. Is there really a difference between maliciously mined coins and legitimately mined coins? Aren't they both the same coins? If so, then...

[invisiblefriend321]

i am part of the pool

i have not received any coins to my wallet (using coinomi)

any reasons behind this ?

namaste

thx in advance for any help


verge/scrypt . coin foundry


my addy is
DCqyH7wSo3UbGRkaAMWKYfJYxMEpe1KPd8

[nrg_wolf]

How does this thread have 12 pages of replies when it was literally just 24 hours old.

I believed in XVG a lot, thought it would surpass Monero and TRTL. But now I'm not so sure.

This seems like a significant problem and no other coin has experienced this.

I'm just wondering, but how many coins did the malicious miners get to mine with these 1-second blocks? If it's like a million verge or something... then wow maybe we should all exploit this!

If Sunerok doesn't think it's a big deal then that means it's okay right? And the instructions are right there in OP. Is there really a difference between maliciously mined coins and legitimately mined coins? Aren't they both the same coins? If so, then...

really this kind of thing has never happened before? is that what you really think lol?

this has happened many times with so many different coins.... please do research before making such assumptions.

[BillionDollarMan]

How does this thread have 12 pages of replies when it was literally just 24 hours old.

I believed in XVG a lot, thought it would surpass Monero and TRTL. But now I'm not so sure.

This seems like a significant problem and no other coin has experienced this.

I'm just wondering, but how many coins did the malicious miners get to mine with these 1-second blocks? If it's like a million verge or something... then wow maybe we should all exploit this!

If Sunerok doesn't think it's a big deal then that means it's okay right? And the instructions are right there in OP. Is there really a difference between maliciously mined coins and legitimately mined coins? Aren't they both the same coins? If so, then...

really this kind of thing has never happened before? is that what you really think lol?

this has happened many times with so many different coins.... please do research before making such assumptions.

It's very rare, first I actually witnessed even though price will definitely recover. Plenty of dumb money in the market.

[skagos]

How does this thread have 12 pages of replies when it was literally just 24 hours old.

I believed in XVG a lot, thought it would surpass Monero and TRTL. But now I'm not so sure.

This seems like a significant problem and no other coin has experienced this.

I'm just wondering, but how many coins did the malicious miners get to mine with these 1-second blocks? If it's like a million verge or something... then wow maybe we should all exploit this!

If Sunerok doesn't think it's a big deal then that means it's okay right? And the instructions are right there in OP. Is there really a difference between maliciously mined coins and legitimately mined coins? Aren't they both the same coins? If so, then...

really this kind of thing has never happened before? is that what you really think lol?

this has happened many times with so many different coins.... please do research before making such assumptions.

interesting, im kinda new to crypto, has this happend to a coin in say top 50 before?

[comingforthatbooty]

I don't have thousands upon thousands of dollars of verge. But shit happens. Look at how long ETN took to get their shit together. And did it moon? Sure as hell did. Did the community lose faith in ETN? Hell no.

Hahaha, worst example ever. Electroneum's shit is far from 'together' and it's sitting at around ICO price..go into their subreddit and tell me that the sentiment about the project isn't turning more negative by the day.

[idolism]

For all the drama queens that haven't even invested in the coin - don't worry I called the crypto cops.

[ocminer]

Just FYI, the attack is active again since hours:

etBestChain: new best=0000000014199bb479e4  height=2024581  trust=2024582  date=04/05/18 04:12:23
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED (scrypt)
received block 0000000005ea72a30c18
SetBestChain: new best=0000000005ea72a30c18  height=2024582  trust=2024583  date=04/05/18 05:45:42
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED (scrypt)
received block 000000000cc5ddc0c405
SetBestChain: new best=000000000cc5ddc0c405  height=2024583  trust=2024584  date=04/05/18 04:12:24
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED (scrypt)
received block 000000001e3596e79f46
SetBestChain: new best=000000001e3596e79f46  height=2024584  trust=2024585  date=04/05/18 05:45:43
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED (scrypt)
received block 000000000bc74932f097
SetBestChain: new best=000000000bc74932f097  height=2024585  trust=2024586  date=04/05/18 04:12:25
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED (scrypt)
received block 0000000018b6b325f06e
SetBestChain: new best=0000000018b6b325f06e  height=2024586  trust=2024587  date=04/05/18 05:45:44
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED (scrypt)
received block 000000000415c5743e39
SetBestChain: new best=000000000415c5743e39  height=2024587  trust=2024588  date=04/05/18 04:12:26
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED (scrypt)
received block 000000000a26a20a9739
SetBestChain: new best=000000000a26a20a9739  height=2024588  trust=2024589  date=04/05/18 05:45:45
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED (scrypt)
received block 0000000016f52c223832
SetBestChain: new best=0000000016f52c223832  height=2024589  trust=2024590  date=04/05/18 04:12:27
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED (scrypt)
received block 000000000e03064ef101
SetBestChain: new best=000000000e03064ef101  height=2024590  trust=2024591  date=04/05/18 04:12:28
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED (scrypt)
received block 000000001db8e8120873
SetBestChain: new best=000000001db8e8120873  height=2024591  trust=2024592  date=04/05/18 04:12:29
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED (scrypt)
received block 000000000a5d54a57c66
SetBestChain: new best=000000000a5d54a57c66  height=2024592  trust=2024593  date=04/05/18 05:45:48
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED (scrypt)
received block 000000000fb646d4be87
SetBestChain: new best=000000000fb646d4be87  height=2024593  trust=2024594  date=04/05/18 04:12:30
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED (scrypt)
received block 000000000483413c5790
SetBestChain: new best=000000000483413c5790  height=2024594  trust=2024595  date=04/05/18 05:45:49
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED (scrypt)
received block 000000001bd339af32af
SetBestChain: new best=000000001bd339af32af  height=2024595  trust=2024596  date=04/05/18 04:12:31
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED (scrypt)
received block 0000000008a51eee47a9
SetBestChain: new best=0000000008a51eee47a9  height=2024596  trust=2024597  date=04/05/18 05:45:50
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED (scrypt)
received block 000000001fb6b0083e10
SetBestChain: new best=000000001fb6b0083e10  height=2024597  trust=2024598  date=04/05/18 04:12:32
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED (scrypt)
received block 00000000088392c64556
SetBestChain: new best=00000000088392c64556  height=2024598  trust=2024599  date=04/05/18 05:45:51
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED (scrypt)
received block 000000000a9fc220f36a
SetBestChain: new best=000000000a9fc220f36a  height=2024599  trust=2024600  date=04/05/18 04:12:33

I've stopped all suprnova pools

[luckydoky]

really this kind of thing has never happened before? is that what you really think lol?

this has happened many times with so many different coins.... please do research before making such assumptions.

Which makes it even worse. You'd expect a top 10 minable coin not to have such blatant holes in its code in early 2018 frankly. At least I do.

[nrg_wolf]

here is the best piece of advice i can give to anyone.... BUY THE FN DIP!!!!....

[sxott72]

Still not receiving coins on x17 supernova.  It shows hashing and my share rate and stuff but, nothing. The last ten transactions that happened hours ago were orphaned. Is it just the pool I’m on or is this everywhere?

[ocminer]

Still not receiving coins on x17 supernova.  It shows hashing and my share rate and stuff but, nothing. The last ten transactions that happened hours ago were orphaned. Is it just the pool I’m on or is this everywhere?

But you did read this topic ?

[sxott72]

Yes but not sure how this attack works because it showed I was still earning. Just no payment happening.