On Wednesday, Kazakhstan, the second-largest country in the world when it comes to Bitcoin (BTC) mining hash rate, experienced unprecedented political unrest due to a sharp rise in fuel prices. As a result, the country's presiding cabinet resigned, but not before the state-owned Kazakhtelecom shut down the nation's internet, causing network activity to plunge to 2% of daily … [Read more...] about Kazakh government resigns, shuts down internet amid protests, causing Bitcoin network hash rate to tumble 13.4%
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Solana hit with another network incident causing degraded performance
The Solana blockchain has suffered a third incident in just a few months that clogged the network and caused transactions to fail, with users debating whether it was caused by another DDos attack or if it was just network issues.The scale and nature of the incident is hard to ascertain, with Coinbase, Wu Blockchain and Redditors reporting there had been an incident causing the … [Read more...] about Solana hit with another network incident causing degraded performance
Hackers steal 3000 ETH from Roll, causing massive price dumps of nearly -100%
This Monday, hackers have stolen at least 3000 ETH ($5.7 million) after breaching the security of Roll, a blockchain ecosystem for the issuance of social tokens and NFTs (non-fungible tokens).Around 3:30 EST, Roll reported suffering a security breach on its platform. Accordingly, a hacker managed to compromised Roll’s private keys to its hot wallet. The attacker drained all the … [Read more...] about Hackers steal 3000 ETH from Roll, causing massive price dumps of nearly -100%