Bitty Kitty: Cat spoils Bitcoin node during price crash with ‘dirty protest’
The story of one Bitcoiner’s cat that sought to disrupt the decentralized network with a “dirty protest.” A Bitcoin node is a pivotal piece of the Bitcoin (BTC) protocol. For bad actors, attacking nodes and bringing them offline is a sound strategy to undermine the network’s resilience. For one British Bitcoiner, such an attack took place, as the actions of his feline friend rendered his Bitcoin node “unreachable.”Bodl_hodler (who wishes to remain anonymous) told Cointelegraph that he “started running Raspberry Pi as Umbrel node January 2021,” as he wished to contribute to the overall....
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