Video: Erebus Attacks And How To Stop Them With ASMAP
On this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, the hosts discuss Erebus Attacks and how Bitcoin Core's ASMAP can counter it. The post Video: Erebus Attacks And How To Stop Them With ASMAP appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
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Look, we have to nip this narrative in the bud. The New Republic recently published a hit piece on cryptocurrencies. It relates them to Ransomware Attacks, references the DarkSide saga, and claims, “ It’s never been easier to hack a company, get paid for it, and escape scot-free.” Is it, though? What they conveniently left […]
F2Pool, a Chinese mining pool also referred to as Discus Fish, which holds the largest share of the Bitcoin network’s hashrate at 26%, has been experiencing a series of extreme DDoS attacks. Behind the DDoS attack. The attacks began to target the F2Pool Bitcoin mining pool almost immediately after the F2Pool team announced their decision to “test” Bitcoin Classic by launching a subpool in which miners can mine Bitcoin Classic blocks. Peter Todd and other Bitcoin experts requested the hackers and the individuals behind the series of DDoS attacks to terminate them immediately, as they are....
Encrypted email service provider ProtonMail recently and grudgingly gave in to a ransom demand of 15 bitcoin (approx $6000) to attackers who targeted the service with destructive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. ProtonMail, an encrypted email service set up by CERN scientists in Geneva and researchers at MIT, has revealed crippling DDoS attacks to be the cause of a recent outage suffered by the crypto e-mail service provider. Two groups are believed to be behind the attacks, one of which began the cyber-strikes and put forth the ransom demand. The website remains down at the....
A YouTube video, “Bitcoin: The End of Money As We Know It,” explains the history, workings and potential of bitcoin. At just more than an hour in length, the video includes a film by Torsten Hoffmann that is not highly technical, yet it gives an overview of bitcoin that can be enjoyed by bitcoin veterans and understood by most people who are not yet familiar with cryptocurrency. The film includes interviews with many well-known bitcoin and financial personalities like Andreas Antonopoulos, author of “Mastering Bitcoin,” and Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve. Roger Ver,....