Ethereum Successfully Hardforks to Address Vulnerable Vectors
Ethereum has successfully upgraded its network to address a number of attack vectors that were constantly exploited in September and October of this year. Just before Devcon2’s opening, an attacker exploited a smart contract gas mispricing bug which threatened to derail Ethereum’s big day. The developers, however, were able to take emergency measures, allowing the network to continue operating, but after Devcon2, for a period of two weeks, the attacker kept exploiting the same bug in different and creative ways, leading Gavin Wood, founder of Parity Technologies, to call for a hardfork.....
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