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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: Network Attack on XVG / VERGE
by
miserymachine
on 04/04/2018, 23:13:57 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.


Looking at the block explorer some of the new blocks are still out of order according to the time stamps. Doesn't that suggest the exploit is still being used? I'm just having a hard time trying to figure out why you believe it only happened for 3 hours. What's to stop the exploit from being used for the rest of the night, therefore stealing more than 250k coins?

nothing, until we release the updated wallets. the way i see it, is this attack has a cost, and will end when we push the update. you aren't invested in verge though, so why are you so concerned?
So you're saying that the exploit is still unresolved, correct? Also, there are lots of other people who ARE invested in your coin, that is why people are concerned.