Video: Bitcoin Eclipse Attacks And How To Solve For Them

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.

Eclipse attacks are a sort of cyberattack in which an attacker creates a fake environment around a single node or user, allowing the attacker to manipulate the node into doing a malicious action. What can blockchain developers learn from eclipse attacks?Developers can familiarize themselves with the vulnerabilities in Bitcoin nodes that can be exploited to replace legitimate peer addresses with their own.Technically, when the node selects IP addresses from the tried bucket with timestamps, it increases the probability of the attacker getting selected. This is true even if the attacker only....

Today is a rare full moon called the Super Flower Moon that also happens to coincide with a total lunar eclipse that gives the moon a crimson color. For the most part, this should have no impact on Bitcoin, however, after seeing a moon phase chart its impossible not to notice at least some correlation […]

Cryptocurrencies (abbreviated 'cryptos') have been having a great day - most of their values are up. Out of the top ten cryptos (measured in market cap), Quark is up the most in the last 24 hours with a 73% rise in value, Dogecoin the second most at 58%, followed by Peercoin at 39%. Almost all of the top 11 cryptocurrencies have been on the rise in the past 24 hours. What's causing the sudden spike? There are numerous theories as to why cryptos are on the rise. Some (mainly in the Dogecoin community) jokingly say it's due to the lunar eclipse two nights ago - the eclipse powered the moon,....

Bitcoin had never been the source of funding for terrorist organizations like ISIL. They may have few bitcoin, but they have a lot of fiat currency and gold. While Bitcoin has a number of great uses, it can still be potentially misused. The very fact that the bitcoin can be misused has led to a lot of speculations about the digital currency followed by ill-informed, unsubstantiated paranoid remarks about its use to fund terror organizations and money laundering. The number of terrorist attacks across the world has been increasing lately. In most of these terrorist attacks, especially the....