An Unknown Miner Commands More Than 51% of BSV’s Hashpower, Consecutive Strings of Empty Blocks Makes Chain Unreliable

An Unknown Miner Commands More Than 51% of BSV’s Hashpower, Consecutive Strings of Empty Blocks Makes Chain Unreliable

A single miner has managed to overhaul a big portion of the Bitcoinsv (Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision) blockchain capturing greater than 80% of the hashrate on October 17. Today, 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 During the Past 7 Days, Empty BSV Blocks Renders Chain Useless at Times

Bitcoinsv (BSV) has been coping with an unknown miner trolling the venture by mining empty blocks, and capturing an ideal majority of hashpower. Statistics from Coin Dance point out that the miner captured 80% of the hashrate between October 17 and 18, 2022.

Interestingly, 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 often called Craig Wright, was additionally ordered to pay $348,257 to compensate Hodlonaut’s courtroom bills. While the courtroom case was not but determined, the unknown miner ramped up its hashrate efforts a number of days earlier than the lawsuit ended.

Instead of mining blocks with tens of 1000’s of transactions, the miner selected to mine near-empty blocks making the blockchain unusable for lengthy durations of time. The BSV miner leverages the BSV handle “1KPST” and up to now the miner has managed to mine 31,111 BSV.

While 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 latest assault towards BSV shouldn’t be the blockchain’s first rodeo with a malicious miner trolling the venture.

Bitcoinsv Was Attacked Last Year 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. During the primary 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 Association, stated that it planned to take action towards the stealth miner.

“Bitcoin Association 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 fees towards the entity/entities accountable,” the Bitcoin Association wrote.

The Bitcoin Association’s (BA) message additional notes that it has been monitoring the miner for months, and the elevated presence has brought about “community issues for sincere miners and companies that work together” with the Bitcoinsv community.

In the identical weblog submit replace, BA insists that “producing an empty block shouldn’t be 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). Year-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.

During the final 24 hours, BSV has seen $25.19 million in international commerce quantity and a substantial amount of trades stem from South Korea. The Korean received at the moment represents 46.68% of BSV’s international buying and selling pairs in accordance with cryptocompare.com data. 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.

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