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Topic: almost an hour into an attack on the ETH network? - page 2. (Read 2228 times)

legendary
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It could be someone/a group for any reason, but if you wanna attack Eth with some exploit you've found, then now is about the best time to do it.  

Anyone who's anyone in the ETH community is most likely in China atm either asleep or with no access to any decent dev gear.

That wasn't my point, but I assume it is because of my english.

Or I could be me being dumb as I've been awake FAR too long! Smiley
legendary
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@FAILCommunity
It could be someone/a group for any reason, but if you wanna attack Eth with some exploit you've found, then now is about the best time to do it. 

Anyone who's anyone in the ETH community is most likely in China atm either asleep or with no access to any decent dev gear.

That wasn't my point, but I assume it is because of my english.
legendary
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It seems the famous Ethereum make many jealous, and coincidentally the day before the devcon2

Interesting...

Indeed, and I know for a fact that Vitalik is currently sleeping (unless someone called his red phone) as our biz dev guy @ Devcon was talking to him prior to him hitting the sack.

First reports of this problem surfaced just after that.  Timing seems a tad suspicious tbh...

What if someone (or a group of guys) wants to prove that cryptocurrency is not all about crowdsales/ICO's and whatever? We all (personally) "know" how to spend millions, but what if part of the world depends on you?

It could be someone/a group for any reason, but if you wanna attack Eth with some exploit you've found, then now is about the best time to do it. 

Anyone who's anyone in the ETH community is most likely in China atm either asleep or with no access to any decent dev gear.
legendary
Activity: 1960
Merit: 1176
@FAILCommunity
It seems the famous Ethereum make many jealous, and coincidentally the day before the devcon2

Interesting...

Indeed, and I know for a fact that Vitalik is currently sleeping (unless someone called his red phone) as our biz dev guy @ Devcon was talking to him prior to him hitting the sack.

First reports of this problem surfaced just after that.  Timing seems a tad suspicious tbh...

What if someone (or a group of guys) wants to prove that cryptocurrency is not all about crowdsales/ICO's and whatever? We all (personally) "know" how to spend millions, but what if part of the world depends on you?
legendary
Activity: 1050
Merit: 1016
It seems the famous Ethereum make many jealous, and coincidentally the day before the devcon2

Interesting...

Indeed, and I know for a fact that Vitalik is currently sleeping (unless someone called his red phone) as our biz dev guy @ Devcon was talking to him prior to him hitting the sack.

First reports of this problem surfaced just after that.  Timing seems a tad suspicious tbh...
newbie
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Merit: 0
It seems the famous Ethereum make many jealous, and coincidentally the day before the devcon2

Interesting...
legendary
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Merit: 1024
Vave.com - Crypto Casino
It's amazing to see and read on all the above links just how fast and strong the community pulled together to identify, isolate, and propose solutions. Won't stop the trolls and their overtly melodramatic shitpost shittweets though.
sr. member
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Merit: 250
Official Response now on the Etherum Blog:

https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/09/18/security-alert-geth-nodes-crash-due-memory-bug/

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Security Alert

Affected configurations: Geth

Likelihood: High

Severity: High

Summary: geth nodes running out of memory and crashing on block https://etherchain.org/block/2283416

Details: TBD

Proposed solution: Switch to an alternative client until fix is provided:

Parity implementation
sr. member
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Merit: 250
Seen at Polo
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ETH has been temporarily disabled for deposits and withdrawals while we investigate network issues. Trading remains enabled. Posted by MobyDick at 2016-09-18 20:41:34
sr. member
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A security alert is incoming. Geth experienced a memory leak and we will soon know more via blog.ethereum.org. Make sure to not run geth for now.

As Gustav-Simonsson puts it here https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/53dfof/geth_crashing_memory_leak/:

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We're looking into it - details so far: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/3002

More info soon. We will post official security alert at https://blog.ethereum.org/ shortly.

It seems ETH needs more variety in terms of implementation.

sr. member
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Merit: 253
VeganAcademy
geth related.

parity nodes are unaffected.

track at https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/3002

p.s. lol buy dash
full member
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Merit: 100
Death couldn't come too soon for this shitcoin, but I suspect it'll be up and running again soon.  It's hard to keep a good shitcoin down, even one as loathsome as eth.  Buy Dash.  Sell eth/etc.
member
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It's the story called death of the new paradigm XVI
sr. member
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Merit: 253
VeganAcademy
seems like mining rigs are down across the network and difficulty is dropping pretty drastically.

my geth daemons have all crashed out citing "out of memory" fatal errors.

anyone have any insight on this crisis?
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