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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: Network Attack on XVG / VERGE
by
testingtester
on 05/04/2018, 07:41:55 UTC
So did I get it right: The devs just need to fix this timestamp bug and reset to the last legit block? The hacker(s) even cannot move their illegit coins? (btw: binance has blocked transfers to it, anyways)

It's actually not so hard to get it fixed and even the hackers coins removed:

Simply exclude all blocks from the blockchain mined with a "bad timestamp" e.g. don't accept blocks where the next block is more than an hour ahead of the previous one.

By doing it this way, you'd already see from the beginning which blocks "belong" to the attacker and which blocks are legit. Then you would simply set checkpoints to exclude the malicious chain and only include legit blocks again.

It's definitely possible.. it requires some work but it's possible.. Definitely better than letting one person get away with > 20 Million XVG ...

That's good news. So just a matter of time. Thanx for answer and I'm gonna return to your x17-xvg pool as soon as it is up again.