Category World

Bitcoin BIP-110 Defeated by Miners

Those of us that actually value Bitcoin and running our own nodes to verify transactions to use the network lost the battle to limit SPAM, but it wasn’t a total loss. We’ve shown the people capturing Bitcoin that we won’t…

Bitcoin Core Sybil Attack (Happening Now)

It would seem someone is spinning up a bunch of Bitcoin Core 27 nodes to try and keep the percentage of Bitcoin Knots BIP-110 nodes from gaining a higher percentage. Who fears this and has the resources to do it?…

Deanonymizing Monero Transactions in Tor Network

An interesting analysis of a paper covering an earlier version of Monero that was a bit too chatty between nodes on Tor, though already corrected in the latest version. And worth noting, compile your own node. I download the source…