Currently new spam attack is ongoing. Largest so far. Wonder how this will effect price and diff...
The price dropped 4$ in few minutes, that is annoying. Why would it matters? Only confirmation time is affected, i don't see why this would change anything for holders and miners.
I suggest reading about it -
http://cointelegraph.com/news/115374/the-ongoing-bitcoin-malleability-attackIt is a bad thing all the way around. Look at the amount of bad transactions during the attack. It is very surprising level they are able to go to.
It really is a nuisance cheap way to duplicate txts then send them twice
The transaction confirms either way and doesn't cause a double spend since the blockchain reads the first input, but that second one stays in the mempool for a while.
This topic provides better details
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1198032.0;topicseenBack to difficulity looks like it went down for a bit (always 0 as a pick) for someone who wants to bet on the impossibilu one haha.
Bitcoin Difficulty: 60,813,224,039
Estimated Next Difficulty: 62,609,953,578 (+2.95%)
Adjust time: After 1085 Blocks, About 7.5 days