How Coinbase dodged the $9 million Ethereum Classic 51% attacks

in #treding4 years ago

Coinbase has released a post-mortem of the early August Ethereum Classic 51% attacks, outlining the event and its impact on their system
By Alexander Behrens
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In brief
Coinbase has released a detailed analysis of the 51% attack against the Ethereum Classic blockchain.
Coinbase was running multiple ETC node clients during the attack and saw the impact of the fork on those systems.
Legal action is being pursued against the attacker by Ethereum Classic Labs.