New knowledge from blockchain explorer Blockchair reveals {that a} hacker took benefit of an exploit in Dogecoin’s (DOGE) blockchain, inflicting nearly all of its nodes to crash.
Earlier this week, a Dogecoin monitoring platform noticed that the variety of DOGE nodes dipped from 647 to only 205, a lower of about 69%.
“Our monitoring made us conscious that the vulnerability seems to have been exploited, and nearly 69% of the Dogecoin community has crashed. Blockchair reveals the variety of public nodes. Earlier than, it was 647, and on the time of writing it’s simply 205.”
Nonetheless, in keeping with Blockchair, some DOGE nodes have since recovered as there are at present 331 lively nodes all over the world at time of writing.
In a current thread on the social media platform X, Bitcoin (BTC) sidechain developer Andreas Kohl says that he was the one who took down many of the DOGE community utilizing an previous laptop computer.
“I used a publicly disclosed vulnerability [by BTC developer Tobias Ruck] to take down 69% of the Dogecoin community from an previous thinkpad in rural El Salvador.”
Based on Kohl, most DOGE customers didn’t even notice.
“Solely nodes that weren’t on the most recent model had been affected – which was nearly all of the community, excluding CEXs (centralized exchanges) and most different main custodians – therefore why most doge customers by no means seen, not that many perceive self-custody.”
Information of the exploit had little impression on the value of DOGE because the meme asset is buying and selling for $0.413 at time of writing, a 4.7% lower over the last 24 hours.
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