News with the tag "51% attack"

Buterin recommended capping the amount of Ether a user can stake and limiting staking penalties to 12.5% of staked Ether.

A social media post by an X account named “Wicked” presents claims that Satoshi Nakamoto may have conducted 51% attacks on the Bitcoin blockchain in May 2009. Wicked speculated that Satoshi likely tested these attacks early on to understand their potential impact on the network. Claims Surface Sugge...

Crypto networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum rely on decentralization and consensus mechanisms to maintain security and integrity. However, the threat of a 51% attack looms over these networks, where a group of miners controls more than half of the network’s mining hash rate, potentially allowing them ...

According to CoinMetrics, attacking Bitcoin could cost between $5 billion and $20 billion while attacking Ethereum would require over $34 billion.

Coinbase has announced it will be removing bitcoinsv (BSV) from its platform, having informed its clientele through an email notification. BSV, which was created following a hard fork from the Bitcoin Cash protocol on November 15, 2018, will no longer be hosted on Coinbase’s services after January 9...

Coinbase plans to liquidate the remaining BSV holdings in its wallets by January 2024. Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is set to completely remove Bitcoin’s (BTC) hard fork, Bitcoin SV (BSV), from its platform following its delisting back in 2021. In an…

The governing body for the aragonOS DAO-creation tool will wind down, transferring its assets to token holders.

Recent data shows a single mining pool controls more than 53% of the hashrate for the cryptocurrency network Zcash. On September 19, 2023, the crypto mining pool Viabtc had 4.2 giga solutions per second (GSol/s) of Zcash’s total 7.84 GSol/s hashrate. Electric Coin Co., which oversees the Zcash proje...

Coinbase changed the Zcash confirmation requirement to 110 blocks, increasing deposit time from 40 minutes to 2.5 hours. Crypto exchange Coinbase has limited trading with Zcash (ZEC) after it found that a single mining pool now controls more than 50%…

UltraSoundMoney data on May 20 shows that two million ethereum (ETH), worth roughly $3.6b, is ready to be staked to further beef up the Ethereum network security