Cryptocurrency Verge Responds To Hacking Claims By Launching ‘Accidental Hard Fork’
Anonymity-focused cryptocurrency Verge (XVG) lost 25% of its value April 4 as news surfaced of an apparent hack which developers ‘resolved’ by accidentally initiating a hard fork.
According to various press and social media sources, including Verge developer known as Sunerok, a bug allowed manipulation of block mining timestamps. This created the potential for illegitimate coins to appear from nowhere.
“There"s currently a >51% attack going on on XVG which exploits a bug in retargeting in the XVG code,” Suprnova mining pool’s OCminer re ...
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