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27 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Defense Minister Diego Molano of Colombia has announced a 3,000,000,000 peso (Just under the equivalent of 800,000 United States dollars) reward for information leading to culprits after President Iván Duque Márquez's helicopter was hit by gunfire. A...
28 Jan 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Abhimanyu Krishnan
Crypto intelligence firm SlowMist published a report on Jan. 27 that detailed how SushiSwap (SUSHI) had undergone a “scavenger attack” for a second time. SlowMist states that a transaction fee for a DIGG-WBTC trading pair had been “taken away by the...
15 Dec 2020 2 minute read 0 comments JaiChai
Snippet: "All who think it just takes a 51% attack to cripple a blockchain are severely misinformed. Because of its notoriety, the Great Firewall of China is less of a threat than a segmentation attack and subsequent majority control." image by pexe...
5 Sep 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Simplify Crypto
Despite being something not so common, it happened with the Ethereum Classic (ETC) twice in the same week (currently there has been another 3 attacks in a month), when a miner got 51% of mining power (hash power) to break into the network and thus cr...
4 Sep 2020 4 minute read 2 comments Simplify Crypto
Bitcoin's consensus mechanism is theoretically vulnerable to attack by miners for dishonest or destructive purposes. As we have seen in other articles, the consensus depends on having a majority of miners interested in keeping the network working hon...
18 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
At least 15 people are confirmed dead and over a dozen others are injured after 4 gunmen attacked the 4-storey Elite Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia. The attack started in the afternoon when a car bomb was detonated at the security gate of the hotel. The...
13 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
A 15 year-old boy surfing off the Wooli Beach in New South Wales, Australia, was attacked by what is believed to be a great white shark, and died not long after being pulled onto the beach by nearby surfers. Paramedics were called to the scene just b...
4 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
A 36 year-old man was pronounced dead after being bitten on the leg by a shark while spearfishing near the Fraser Island of Queensland, Australia, marking the fourth fatal shark attack in Australian waters in 2020. According to officials, a doctor an...
21 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Yasin
Alistair Milne, chief investment officer of the cryptocurrency fund Altana Digital Currency Fund, has created a challenge game on Twitter where the winner will take all of Bitcoin. Starting in May, Milne periodically published clues for 12-word recov...
18 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Yasin
The attack, approved by Bancor, occurred yesterday evening. It is stated in the statement that all funds are safe. Stating that they realized a counter-attack on the contract as soon as they realized the attack, Bancor officials stated that there was...
