URGENT ALL MINERS: The network is under attack. The attack is a computational DDoS, ie. miners and nodes need to spend a very long time processing some blocks. This is due to the EXTCODESIZE opcode, which has a fairly low gasprice but which requires nodes to read state information from disk; the attack transactions are
BitMEX faces claims it profited from customer liquidations totaling 622.66 BTC. Plaintiffs seek Bitcoin recovery and damages over alleged unfair liquidation practices. Lawsuit coincides with BitMEX’s planned September shutdown after 11 years. BitMEX is facing a proposed class action lawsuit in the United States over allegations that it profited from customer Bitcoin liquidations. The case
Chinese courts have sentenced five Sifang payment platform operators to between three and six years in prison over a gambling network that processed more than 2.95 billion yuan, or about $428 million, through USDT, bank cards and third-party payment accounts. Summary Chinese courts sentenced five Sifang operators to between three and six years. The network
Today the network was attacked by a transaction spam attack that repeatedly called the EXTCODESIZE opcode (see trace sample here), thereby creating blocks that take up to ~20-60 seconds to validate due to the ~50,000 disk fetches needed to process the transaction. The result of this was a ~2-3x reduction in the rate of block
24 March, 2026 The Bitfinex trading platform will be offline for a limited period of time on 25/03/2026 to undergo a scheduled maintenance upgrade aimed at enhancing the stability and scalability of our infrastructure. The upgrade is expected to begin at approximately 08:00 AM UTC (subject to change) and will last for around six hours.
India’s cybercrime authority has ordered GitHub to remove three repositories linked to Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat messaging app within three hours. Summary India ordered GitHub to remove three Bitchat repositories within a three-hour deadline. I4C cited surveillance risks linked to Bitchat’s anonymous, offline Bluetooth mesh network. Digital rights groups challenged the order’s legality and called it
During the last couple of weeks, the Ethereum network has been the target of a sustained attack. The attacker(s) have been very crafty in locating vulnerabilities in the client implementations as well as the protocol specification. While the recent patches have led to an overall increased resiliency in the client implementations, the attacks have also
In XRP news today, David Schwartz, Ripple’s CTO Emeritus and co-creator of the XRP Ledger, publicly admitted on July 20, 2026 that he regrets selling XRP at $0.10 and 40,000 ETH at roughly $1.05 each – but he was clear that neither sale reflected a loss of conviction in crypto. Both were products of a
Robinhood Chain token launch platform Memecoin.Fun has raised $3.5 million in strategic funding as the network’s decentralized exchanges approach $9 billion in cumulative trading volume. Summary Memecoin.Fun raised $3.5 million in strategic financing led by Becker Ventures. Funding will support launchpad infrastructure, cross-chain bridges, and a multichain memecoin platform. Robinhood Chain’s growing activity is increasing
The Ethereum network will be undergoing a hard fork at block number 2463000, which will likely occur between 12:00 and 13:00 UTC on Tuesday, October 18, 2016. A countdown timer can be seen at https://fork.codetract.io/. As a user, what do I need to do? Download the latest version of your Ethereum client: What happens if
