Vitalik Buterin Confirms Another Ethereum Hard Fork, With Geth Failing To Prevent DoS Attacks
The increasing number and intensity of denial-of-service attacks has continuously affected the network, causing delays in exchanges and wallet platforms for ETH deposits and withdrawals. As a direct result to this issue, Vitalik Buterin has recently confirmed the execution of the EIP150 hard fork. Geth releases inefficient. Despite the release of a series of Geth releases including “What else should we rewrite?” “Come at me Bro (1.4.15),” and the latest “Poolaid (v1.4.17),” the Ethereum development team has struggled to mitigate the DoS attacks and transaction spam attacks.rmed the....
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Déjà vu? Although there isn't a timeline yet, ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin today suggested that the platform's developers may have to hard fork to once again solve pressing network problems. If pursued, the move would come less than three months after ethereum last executed a hard fork in a controversial bid to return funds to investors in The DAO. Despite the potential risks (last time, the upgrade didn't go as planned), the new fork seems to have initial support, as it is seen as a way to foil ongoing attacks on the network. In recent weeks, the ethereum blockchain has been barraged....
Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin has addressed the no-fork blockchain Ethereum Classic which follows the protocols and consensus based on the Ethereum platform prior to the recent hard fork. In a telling statement via a blog post today, Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin revealed that the foundation that continues to develop and support the Ethereum blockchain will commit to the hard fork decision taken by miners. Buterin called the hard fork community consensus as an “admittedly difficult” decision. Buterin also added that the foundation will not oppose or hinder any efforts to use the....
New Geth Fails to Prevent Ethereum Blockchain Attacks, Erik Voorhees Says Network Only Gets Stronger
As Ethereum continues to suffer from spam attacks upon the execution of its new Geth release “Come at me Bro,” ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees reassures users that it only makes the network stronger. Amid the transaction spam attack earlier last week, exchanges and wallet platforms experienced various delays in processing ETH deposits and withdrawals. While users and traders are experiencing delays, Erik Voorhees says that in dealing with spam, the Ethereum development team is building more robust and innovative security measures. Voorhees says: “Every time someone attacks a Blockchain....
Other changes include the release of a stable Go API, as well as Android and iOS support for Geth. As most cryptocurrency users are well aware, Ethereum will undergo another hard fork. After a lot of discussion among developers, the decision was made to activate the fork at block 2,675,000. Multiple clients will be ready to accommodate this change, which marks another significant milestone for the Ethereum ecosystem. Every Ethereum hard fork has a rather unusual name, and the fourth one is no exception. Under the Spurious Dragon banner, this new fork will go into effect at block 2,675,000.....
Following a consensus flaw in Geth, the lead developer for Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin has issued a high security alert based on an issue that was identified with Geth’s journaling mechanism which caused a network fork at block #2686351 - Nov. 24, 2016 at 14:12:07 UTC. In a post, Buterin noted that the Geth 1.5.3 has been released for users to update the Blockchain from the point of the fork, even if it has synced past the point of the fork. He states: “If you do not update, please be aware you will be on an invalid chain that is not supported...We continue to recommend that exchanges and....