Satoshi’s Heel: Is Mining Infrastructure A Vulnerability That Could Take Down...
The Bitcoin mining network presents a potential vulnerability to the network that could prove to be an Achilles’ heel unless addressed. Does Bitcoin have a critical weakness? In Greek mythology, Thetis dipped her infant son Achilles into the River Styx to give him the power of invulnerability. Achilles grew to become a seemingly-invincible warrior, but he was felled when a poison arrow struck him in the heel, the very spot where Thetis had held him when she dipped him in the river. She’d missed just one tiny spot, but that was the downfall of Achilles. In modern times, the term “Achilles’....
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Last week, a bitcointalk hero-level community member by the name of "BitcoinEXpress" announced that he found an Achille's Heel-like vulnerability in CryptoNote, a highly-sophisticated and secure cryptography technology. BitcoinEXpress said that someone could attack Monero, a cryptocurrency that uses CryptoNote, because of this vulnerability. In a post, BitcoinEXpress said the following about a vulnerability: "I have no interest in buying any exploit or any interest in attacking Monero. I am neither for or against, the coin. I do however see a serious flaw inherent to all CN coins with....
What is Satoshi’s Place and how is it different then other pixel ad projects? Well, first of all, as you might have noticed, different spaces have a different value on this page. Cheaper ad spaces will be claimed rapidly making the site (and the ads) grow in value with every new advertiser. This hasn’t yet been done as far as I know with a pixel ad site of similar. Secondly, it doesnt use a content management system, thus is far more secure being coded almost entirely in HTML. Also, it looks neat *Evil Grin*. What sparked the idea of Satoshi’s place?
During security testing a vulnerability was exposed on the Authy app, a two-factor authentication tool. Less than 0.2% of Authy users were affected. An outside security research team discovered the vulnerability which affects users who changed the phone number on Authy accounts since February 2014. The users affected were no longer able to access their original phone and so thus had to prove phone ownership. This process included government issued ID’s. Authy immediately moved to patch the vulnerability and has no evidence the vulnerability was exploited by nefarious characters. Authy sent....
Bitcoin Press Release: ZooKeeper has launched a new staking pool called Satoshi’s Oasis Paradise, which allows users to now earn BTC, instead of XRP. 17th August 2021, GENEVA, Switzerland — Built on Wanchain, the Yield farming platform ZooKeeper has announced the launch of its new staking pool, Satoshi’s Oasis Paradise. The staking pool now offers […]
There have been recent allegations that Bitmain can shut down all of its Antminer mining hardware remotely. This supposed “backdoor” vulnerability has been dubbed “Antbleed,” and can be viewed via lines of code on Github and Pastebin. The website antbleed.com was created apparently to explain the vulnerability to the public. According to the website, the....