18 Block Reorg Slams Monero, Erasing 36 Minutes Of Blockchain
Monero’s privacy chain endured its deepest-ever chain reorganization in the last 24 hours, when 18 consecutive blocks were replaced, briefly “rewriting” roughly 36 minutes of ledger history and invalidating about 118 already-confirmed transactions. Multiple independent monitors flagged the event late Sunday into Monday, describing a rollback spanning block heights 3,499,659 through 3,499,676 before nodes converged […]
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