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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: Network Attack on XVG / VERGE
by
ocminer
on 04/04/2018, 23:12:54 UTC
we're putting out an update, and it will fix it. that's what we can do. it's the best we can do. no, they did not 13 hours of coins. it was some blocks during a 3 hour period.

something around ~250k coins, and the attack probably cost alot more than that, luckily.

we are glad this was brought to our attention, and we are already working on a sophisticated block verification routine.

Sorry this is not true, the attack started on block  2007365 and ended on block 2010039 = 2674 blocks, okay lets say 2500 blocks...

One Block makes about 1560 coins, so you have 2500 * 1560 = 3.900.000 "extra" coins generated (at least!) ....

I've listed a few of the attackers addresses in the first post.. Just check them, check the balance and if you're curious, just go through all the blocks during that timespan and sum them up.. It's actually easy when you have a blockexplorer database running.. You can do it via SQL query.


not all blocks during that time were mined by them, i checked. it was much less than half from what i saw across the other pools.

Well.. I checked it as well, in fact I've got the logfiles and started working through them but I have other things todo instead of going through logfiles.. From what I see 95% of the blocks during that time went to "them".. And i'm pretty certain about that..

Okay, lets say they STILL don't have ALL of the blocks (which is wrong), there were STILL almost 3000 blocks generated during a very short time, so over 3.900.000 coins (at least) were extra-generated... Where did they go ? I don't see those blocks on the "big" pools...