Hackers took over most of the computing power in the Bitcoin network Gold
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Recently, the Bitcoin network with Gold was attacked double-spending. Cryptocurrency has become at least the third Aldona whose vulnerability was exploited by hackers. The first reports of the attack appeared on may 18, reports . Recall, on the eve investors cryptocurrency Verge also from the actions of fraudsters.
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To make double-spending in the network Aldona, hackers took control of more than 51 percent of computing power. In itself, this event is very expensive even by the standards of a small network of Bitcoin Gold, but the cost can be covered the subsequent sale of huge amount of the coins.
After the attack, 51 hackers began to send the coins to the wallets of exchanges at the same time to transfer them to another wallet. Under normal conditions, only the first transaction would be in the blockchain, but when you control for much of the computing power of the network to build a parallel block chain of arbitrary length.
From may 16 to purse criminals had come 388200 coins BTG. In dollar terms, the attackers stole 18.6 million dollars. The latest transaction in the wallet committed on may 18, but the hackers still have access to most of the computing power of the network.
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