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Trader Loses $71 Million In Phishing Attack Due To Address Similarity

A shocking incident has emerged in the cryptocurrency community, with a trader reportedly falling victim to a phishing attack resulting in a staggering loss of $71 million. The unfortunate sequence of events unfolded when the trader, in a routine transaction, created a new address labeled “0xd9A1b0B1e1aE382DbDc898Ea68012FfcB2853a91” and transferred 0.05 $ETH […] дальше »

2024-5-5 19:36


Huge Transaction Brought Down LND For The 2nd Time. Is Blockstream Responsible?

Is LND broken? Or was the ridiculously large transaction that unsynched it a direct attack on the LND implementation? Does all of this affect the larger Lightning Network? And what about the bitcoin network? This story starts with all kinds of questions and can’t promise to answer them all. The game is afoot. Something’s going […] дальше »

2022-11-2 00:38


На блокчейн Zcash совершили спам-атаку

Блокчейн ориентированной на приватность криптовалюты Zcash (ZEC) подвергся спам-атаке, которая заполняет блоки защищенными транзакциями с сотнями выходов. The zcash spam attack continues. Almost every block contains a shielded transaction with hundreds of outputs. дальше »

2022-10-7 13:56


Хакер вывел $90 млн из протокола Mirror. Это обнаружили спустя семь месяцев

Работающий на базе Terra DeFi-протокол Mirror стал жертвой эксплойта на сумму более $90 млн. Его обнаружил аналитик FatMan, а подтвердили специалисты фирмы по кибербезопасности BlockSec. As pointed out by many followers (thanks very much), the attack transaction can be viewed on the ‘classic’ chain(https://t. дальше »

2022-5-31 13:51


Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding

Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions. дальше »

2019-6-14 04:03


Ethereum Classic (ETC) 51% attack proof that shitcoins have no hope of succeeding?

On January 7th, the story broke about Ethereum Classic, the less popular result of the much-publicized post-DAO-hack Ethereum hard fork, suffering a 51% attack. After more than 200 thousand ETC ended up being stolen through double spending attacks and transaction reversal, ETC development team reacted and promised to look into a solution to what appears […] The post Ethereum Classic (ETC) 51% attack proof that shitcoins have no hope of succeeding? appeared first on CaptainAltcoin. дальше »

2019-1-9 12:57


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A Bug Making Ethereum Transactions on Exchanges Vulnerable Has Been Fixed

A bug centering around a new Ethereum token, GasToken, which was enabling abuse on cryptocurrency exchanges, appears to have been resolved. The details are provided in a report originally published on November 13, 2018, that discussed how the bug was exploited by attackers, and what digital platforms could do if they wished to protect their hot wallet funds. дальше »

2018-11-22 00:34


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What Bitcoin Did Gets Technical with Crypto-Educator Jimmy Song

<iframe style="border: none" src="//html5-player. libsyn. com/embed/episode/id/7132345/height/90/theme/custom/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" height="90" width="100%" scrolling="no"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> On the latest episode of What Bitcoin Did, host Peter McCormack interviews Jimmy Song, a consultant in blockchain education, to take an in-depth look at a relatively recent incident in the world of cryptocurrency and use that as an example to segue into a deeper discussion on the possible trajectories of Bitcoin itself. дальше »

2018-10-6 00:05


STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials

Special thanks to Eli Ben-Sasson for ongoing help, explanations and review, coming up with some of the examples used in this post, and most crucially of all inventing a lot of this stuff; thanks to Hsiao-wei Wang for reviewing Hopefully many people by now have heard of ZK-SNARKs, the general-purpose succinct zero knowledge proof technology that can be used for all sorts of usecases ranging from verifiable computation to privacy-preserving cryptocurrency. дальше »

2018-7-21 23:03


Vitalik Buterin Estimates Ethereum Spam Transaction Fees at $15 million

According to Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum’s recent spam congestion transactions have racked up at least $15 million in gas fees. Facing record congestion in the form of soaring gas fees and pending transaction times, the Ethereum network has been recently stung with a gas price manipulation attack caused by thousands of spurious transactions. дальше »

2018-7-19 08:00


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Op Ed: Addressing the Threat of Cryptomining Malware

One major class of attacks to hit the hacking landscape recently is cryptomining. While cryptomining on its own supports a good cause when being done consciously, it also allows nefarious actors to make a lot of money fast, and, with the sheer number of cryptocurrencies available to mine, it is becoming a popular choice for attackers. дальше »

2018-7-18 23:18