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Coinbase plans to liquidate the remaining BSV holdings in its wallets by January 2024. Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is set to completely remove Bitcoin’s (BTC) hard fork, Bitcoin SV (BSV), from its platform following its delisting back in 2021. In an…
Coinbase changed the Zcash confirmation requirement to 110 blocks, increasing deposit time from 40 minutes to 2.5 hours. Crypto exchange Coinbase has limited trading with Zcash (ZEC) after it found that a single mining pool now controls more than 50%…
Bitcoin Gold (BTG), a cryptocurrency infamous for being one of the select few that fell victim to a 51% attack, has been aggressively rising over the last few days. Bitcoin Gold went from $13.38 on July 30 to $21.41 today,…
UltraSoundMoney data on May 20 shows that two million ethereum (ETH), worth roughly $3.6b, is ready to be staked to further beef up the Ethereum network security
Privacy coin Firo suffered a 51% attack on its blockchain network today. The unknown attacker reorganized more than 300 blocks on its blockchain during the course of the attack. Major attack on Firo Blockchain network The attack occurred in the…
Bitcoin Gold (BTG) has suffered another 51% network exploit with the attacker reportedly double-spending $75,000 in BTG tokens. Details of the Bitcoin Gold 51% Attack According to MIT crypto researcher James Lovejoy, Bitcoin Gold, one of the Bitcoin hard forks…
The Bitcoin Cash (BCH) community is preparing itself for another hash war as an unknown miner with Satoshi’s name in the block’s coin base accounts for 44% of current BCH hash rate. A Reddit user posted these findings on April 29, 2019.…
Nicehash owns about 70% of DASH mining network according to a Reddit user (Jan 10), and the news is already causing a wave of concerns within the community Investigation It looks like someone currently controls over 51% of DASHs hashrate…
Shortly after detecting a deep chain reorganization of the Ethereum Classic blockchain (ETC) on January 8, 2019, cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase Tweeted that it has stopped all transactions related to the cryptocurrency. Ethereum Classic Blockchain Reorganized After having a monumental 2018,…
On October 7, 2018, Reddit user team-periwinkle took to social media, questioning cryptocurrency users for their interest in a potential 51% attack. While attackers would not typically announce their intentions publicly, the purpose of the attack would be for education,…
Bitmain’s concerning hashrate dominance on the Bitcoin’s network reached a new high on June 24, 2018, after reports suggested it nearing the fatal 51 percent figure. Rising Concerns As per a report on Trustnodes, the Chinese mining equipment manufacturer controls…
Bitcoin Gold (BTG) will switch to a new Proof-of-Work (PoW) algorithm after the recent 51 percent and double spending attack on the protocol. ASIC Miners to Face Unprofitable Times In an official announcement on June 4, 2018, the BTG organization…