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Re: [ANN] Official Sexcoin Thread - New upgrade: OpenSSL Heartbleed Bugfix
by
sxcer
on 05/05/2014, 01:23:58 UTC
Someone is dumping a lot of sexcoins right now, and I'm buying  Shocked

It seems someone is exploiting vulnerability found with KGW to mine as much as 10 blocks per minute (instead of just 1) without mining difficulty
increasing enough to compensate for such instamining. Just check blockrate at http://sxcexplorer.com/chain/Sexcoin to see it yourself. SXC difficulty
adjusts waaaaaaaaaaaay too fucking slowly! Attacker is someone with major hashpower, at least 5 times higher hashrate than rest of miners. Mined
coins are auto-sold at Cryptsy, in bursts.

2014-05-04 18:19:43   Buy   0.00000450   50.00000000
2014-05-04 18:19:42   Buy   0.00000450   49.95694564
2014-05-04 18:19:42   Buy   0.00000450   49.90358326
2014-05-04 18:19:42   Buy   0.00000450   49.78925152
2014-05-04 18:19:42   Buy   0.00000450   49.94097598
2014-05-04 18:19:41   Buy   0.00000450   49.86142246

http://i.imgur.com/gUC4z1I.png

I saw what he is doing and decided to enter the market for around 0.25 BTC total at 0.00000450 but until difficulty retargeting is fixed to react much
faster I won't be buying any more SXC. Instead, I'll put buy orders at 0.00000100 or less and wait.

we are aware of the kgw timewarp attack, the fix is another hardfork, but we are already waiting on the magic hardfork. I was hoping this would not prove to be a problem but ...

well, we can fix it just as aurora coin did here:
http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=552895.msg6016831#msg6016831

here is the "i'm going to hack your coin to prove you need to fix it" msg posted to aurora coin thread
http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=504103.msg5550654#msg5550654


so, take advantage of it while you can, if you can. I predict we will be fixing it sooner than later now that you've pointed out it's being exploited Smiley