No matter what happens, ETH will dominate thanks to all the attacks because they'll learn how to fix and prevent them all. It'll be the most rock-solid crypto of all time in due course. Sincere, and I mean sincere, thanks to ETC. You are making my day. I do respect you and understand your viewpoint. But still, I mainly thank you from the bottom of my heart for making my day, every day, and keeping the ETH price from skyrocketing. But, it's only a matter of time until it does: Patience, Persistence, Perseverance.
Dream on. You don't harm anybody. Just make sure you burn your own money!
Today's Blockchain Issues and Parity Fix self.ethereum
Submitted 13 hours ago by SouptacularEthereum - Hudson Jameson
Today, we've seen an sudden increase in the uncle-rates, and a corresponding drop in difficulty, indicating latency or connectivity-problems between nodes.
The reason this is happening is that the attacker has found an issue with how Parity relays transactions; as it by default does not validate transactions before relaying.
The attacker is submitting large transactions which are being passed around, even though they are (for the most part) never included into any blocks.
Example of a transaction which actually were included:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xb1d7fbdc4b28c0471ca92d290b4d46f6d2471ee0f7bd1ece2661e57d86cd51ebTo address these issues we ask all Parity-users upgrade to the latest release of the Parity client:
https://github.com/ethcore/parity/releases/tag/v1.3.55 commentsshare