so here is what's happening with our network lately, and the insane amount of hashpower (600gh/s+, while our network is at 2-10gh/s) (to give you an idea, 600+gh/s is about half of litecoins entire network hashrate)
this ip address, 182.92.183.58
https://www.virustotal.com/en-gb/ip-address/182.92.183.58/information/http://block.oklink.com/ltc/blocks/182.92.183.58/this person is coming on the network, and raking in a ton of blocks (almost every drop of work) and then mining the headers, and submitting the blocks when they are done. that is why no transactions get sent during
that time. they arent mining transactions. just block headers.
as you can see from the links above, they have been doing this with
Anoncoin, Viacoin, Novacoin, Dogecoin, and Litecoin and probably others.i've talked to some of the devs from other coins, and we're putting our heads together to think of what to do. it's happening to bitcoin at the moment as well.
[bitcoin-dev] We need to fix the block withholding attackif anyone wants to join in on working on a new branch in the source code, shoot me a pm.
in the mean time,
no harm is happening to our network, just every few days, transactions pause for a couple of hours. (it could be worse, alot worse lol)
i'm not sure what bitcoin plans on doing about it.. but ive had a few ideas.. one of them is to definitely not DDOS that ip, because that would be wrong
