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Japans Financial Services Agency (FSA) infiltrated the exchange to examine their books to make sure the balance sheet was strong enough to repay investors who lost funds in the NEM hack. Coincheck is reaching into its own coffers to repay the 260,000 NEM investors whose accounts were affected by the heist. Japan's FSA has been closely monitoring the business operations of Coincheck since the hack. New to Bitcoin? Check out CoinGeek’s Bitcoin for Beginners section, the ultimate resource guide to learn more about Bitcoin-as originally envisioned by Satoshi Nakamoto-and blockchain.The stolen NEM funds were stored in a web-based hot wallet, which is more vulnerable compared to the more secure cold wallets, the latter of which can be stored offline. I will also help ensure that the person who does it ends spending a long time in a small cell.” Oh… I do not expect to even have to spend a cent. Craig Wright has spoken of the safety of transactions on the Bitcoin SV chain, even stating he is willing to shoulder “any loss that occurs on a REAL double-spend fraud. Coinbase reported double spends both may be true.

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“e’ll soon get a full picture of what actually took place. The developers explained what happened as possibly “ASIC manufacturer Linzhi” testing their “new 1,400 Mh ethash machines.” Many commenters on the tweet used the occurrence as a reason to go with a new proof-of-work algorithm that takes away the advantages of ASIC chips for mining, when the ETH chain undergoes a hard fork this month.Ī later tweet from the ETC developers acknowledged Coinbase’s findings. Furthermore, it said that what was detected were not double spends but rather “miner dumped bocks.

That is to say, the mining pool controls an absolute majority of the ETC hash rate, a prerequisite to a 51% attack.”ĭevelopers of ETC, through its official Twitter account, maintained that what happened was not a 51% attack, but rather “most likely selfish mining,” where a group of miners mine their own blocks in the hopes of later making these part of the dominant chain. As of the time of its report, “the sole contribution of the dark horse mining pool is 5,870.98 GH/s, an equivalent to 5.87 TH/s, or in other words, 63% of the entire hash rate sustaining the blockchain. According to the site, Chinese blockchain security firm SlowMist has issued an alert that ETC appeared to have been hit by a 51% attack.Ī analyst had observed through Gas Tracker data an upsurge in hash rate at around 11:00 UTC on January 6, of 3,263 gigahashes per second, up from the weekly average rate of about 300 GH/s. “The Coinbase team is currently evaluating the safety of re-enabling sends and receives of Ethereum Classic and will communicate to our customers what to expect regarding support for ETC,” Nesbitt wrote.Ĭ reported that British Virgin Islands-based BKEX and Japan-based Coincheck have also halted trading of ETC on account of the recent mining activity.

In a Medium post, Coinbase Security Engineer Mark Nesbitt said that his team had observed “repeated deep reorganizations” on the ETC chain, not all of which involved double spends, or the using of the same unit of cryptocurrency more than once, made possible by taking control of more than half a blockchain’s hash power. The Coinbase exchange (NASDAQ: COIN) detected double spends on the Ethereum Classic (ETC) network over a three-day period worth a total of 88,500 ETC, or about $460,000, for which trading of the cryptocurrency was suspended.