Website Hosting Bitcoin White Paper Cyber-attacked, Hacker Demands 0.5 BTC
The original Bitcoin website Bitcoin.org was hit with an “overwhelming attack” and a ransom demanded. Bitcoin.org Attacked Cøbra, the pseudonymous owner of Bitcoin.org, told his 42,000 followers that the site suffered a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS). A DDoS attack is done by artificially flooding a website with traffic to overwhelm it, making it unavailable to […]
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Apart from removing the white paper, Cøbra has removed access to Bitcoin software for site visitors from the United Kingdom. It is no longer possible to download the Bitcoin Core software from Bitcoin.org if you visit the website with a United Kingdom internet protocol (IP) address. A notice on the website reads: “This software is presently not available for download in the UK, and download links will not work if you are located within the United Kingdom.”Indeed, attempting to proceed with downloading the Bitcoin (BTC) software from the site using a U.K. IP returns a “404 error.”Detailing....