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Solana prevents potential outage, patches critical vulnerability

DIGIT — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 07:56:39 +0000

Solana validator Laine said that an attacker could have attempted to reverse engineer the vulnerability, which could have halted the network.

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More than 280 blockchains at risk of ‘zero-day’ exploits, warns security firm

DIGIT — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 05:30:13 +0000

Dogecoin, Zcash and Litecoin have already patched the “critical” vulnerability, but hundreds of others may not have, risking billions’ worth of crypto.

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Terra Blockchain Temporarily Stops Block Production, Aims to Restart Network With a Patch

DIGIT — Thu, 12 May 2022 19:00:15 +0000

At 12:14 p.m. (ET), the Twitter account operated by the Terra team announced that the Terra blockchain network had been halted. According to the Terra developers’ tweet, Terra validators needed to apply a patch to further disable delegations. Terra Blockchain Halts in Order to Prevent Governance Attacks, Team Says Restart Coming Soon At the time […]

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An In Depth Look at Bitcoin’s First Chain Split: Satoshi Helps Reverse the Creation of 184 Billion BTC

DIGIT — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 13:30:37 +0000

Since January 3, 2009, the Bitcoin network has been functional for 99.98662952015% of the time. However, the protocol has had a few hiccups along the way and on a few occasions, the chain split into two. Most people are well aware of the Bitcoin Cash split that took place on August 1, 2017, but the […]

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