Mining
A single miner has managed to overhaul a big portion of the Bitcoinsv (Bitcoin Satoshi’s Imaginative and prescient) blockchain capturing greater than 80% of the hashrate on October 17. At this time, the unknown miner’s hashpower instructions round 54% of the Bitcoinsv’s computational energy and over the last seven days, the stealth miner captured 64.5%.
Unknown Hashpower Captured 64% of the Bitcoinsv Chain In the course of the Previous 7 Days, Empty BSV Blocks Renders Chain Ineffective at Instances
Bitcoinsv (BSV) has been coping with an unknown miner trolling the venture by mining empty blocks, and capturing an awesome majority of hashpower. Statistics from Coin Dance point out that the miner captured 80% of the hashrate between October 17 and 18, 2022.
Curiously, the unknown miner took over the blockchain’s hashrate throughout the defamation trial between Craig Wright, the person who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, and the pseudonymous Bitcoiner Hodlonaut. Wright misplaced the lawsuit and Hodlonaut was acquitted of all claims associated to the defamation case.
The self-proclaimed Satoshi, in any other case referred to as Craig Wright, was additionally ordered to pay $348,257 to compensate Hodlonaut’s court docket bills. Whereas the court docket case was not but determined, the unknown miner ramped up its hashrate efforts a number of days earlier than the lawsuit ended.
Coin Dance stats on Saturday, October 23, 2022. 24-hour metrics exhibits the stealth miner instructions round 54% of the Bitcoinsv’s computational energy and greater than 64% over the last week.
As a substitute of mining blocks with tens of 1000’s of transactions, the miner selected to mine near-empty blocks making the blockchain unusable for lengthy intervals of time. The BSV miner leverages the BSV handle “1KPST” and up to now the miner has managed to mine 31,111 BSV.
Whereas writing this text, at 8:30 a.m. (ET), the unknown BSV miner captured the final six blocks and every block subsidy has just one transaction (Block 762,740 to Block 762,745). The current assault towards BSV just isn’t the blockchain’s first rodeo with a malicious miner trolling the venture.
Bitcoinsv (BSV) has round 321 petahash per second (PH/s) of SHA256 hashrate, which implies it has roughly 15-20 megawatts of energy. Between October 17 and 18, the unknown miner captured 80% of BSV’s hashrate.
Bitcoinsv Was Attacked Final Yr and Suffered a 100-Block Reorganization
In mid-July 2021, crypto exchanges halted BSV deposits after 78% of the BSV hashrate was captured that month. In the course of the first week of August 2021, the community was delivered to its knees when a miner 51% attacked the Bitcoinsv chain. On Tuesday, August 3, 2021, the BSV community endured a 100 block reorg “wiping out 570K transactions,” in accordance with the founding father of Blockchair, Nikita Zhavoronkov.
On October 17, 2022, when the unknown miner captured round 80% of the community, the group behind the BSV venture referred to as the Bitcoin Affiliation, stated that it deliberate to take motion towards the stealth miner.
“Bitcoin Affiliation is taking motion to contact all related exchanges and miners to freeze all block rewards related to this malicious miner and will likely be pursuing felony costs towards the entity/entities accountable,” the Bitcoin Affiliation wrote.
The Bitcoin Affiliation’s (BA) message additional notes that it has been monitoring the miner for months, and the elevated presence has induced “community issues for trustworthy miners and companies that work together” with the Bitcoinsv community.
In the identical weblog put up replace, BA insists that “producing an empty block just isn’t inherently a dishonest act per the principles set forth within the whitepaper.” The identical day, BA additionally tweeted out an article hosted on bitcoinsv.com that claims “mining empty blocks hurts the Bitcoin community.”
On October 23, the native crypto asset bitcoinsv (BSV) is down 3% in worth towards the U.S. greenback and 1.8% towards bitcoin (BTC). Yr-to-date, the token BSV has misplaced 72.7% towards the dollar and BSV is 90.5% down from the all-time excessive recorded on April 16, 2021.
Over the last 24 hours, BSV has seen $25.19 million in world commerce quantity and a substantial amount of trades stem from South Korea. The Korean gained at this time represents 46.68% of BSV’s world buying and selling pairs in accordance with cryptocompare.com knowledge. Tether (USDT) is BSV’s second-largest buying and selling pair with 35.69% of all BSV trades, adopted by usd coin (USDC) with 8.45% of BSV swaps.
