Ethereum is Under DDoS Attack, Miners are Alerted
Almost immediately after all geth nodes crashed due to an out of memory bug, the Ethereum development team released yet another urgent announcement to miners regarding a computational DDoS attack, which significantly delayed nodes and miners in processing blocks. Jeffrey Wilcke, the Ethereum co-founder and lead developer, released a statement to ask all miners and developers to switch to parity mining instead of utilizing geth nodes, which caused some trouble in authenticating and validating some blocks due to the EXTCODESIZE opcode. Wilcke further explained that the Ethereum development....
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