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Bitcoiner claims he crashed 70% of Dogecoin community with an previous laptop computer

By Editorial Board Published December 12, 2024 2 Min Read
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Bitcoiner claims he crashed 70% of Dogecoin community with an previous laptop computer

An El Salvador-based Bitcoin maxi says he took down 70% of the Dogecoin ($DOGE) community on Wednesday, utilizing an previous laptop computer and a publicly accessible exploit.

Bitcoin sidechain developer Andreas Kohl shared screenshots on X that counsel he crashed 442 of Dogecoin’s nodes, nearly 69% of your entire community, utilizing an previous Thinkpad laptop computer and the ‘DogeReaper’ vulnerability.

‘DogeReaper’ permits a person to crash any Dogecoin node remotely. The exploit was revealed publicly on December 4 by the Division Of DOGE Effectivity (to not be confused with Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity).

Kohl claimed he was capable of crash nearly all of the Dogecoin community yesterday.

“Bitcoin Monk” Tobias Ruck and software program developer Roqqit each found the vulnerability, which was then disclosed in secret to miners and crypto exchanges. A patch for the node was created however a lot of the nodes within the community did not replace to the brand new patch, ensuing within the community in the end being exploited. 

In response to the Doge Effectivity account, a malicious actor might’ve “stopped the Dogecoin network for at least a few days, with no transactions or blocks,” rendering the worth of DOGE “closer to $0 than to $1.”

The account additionally famous that Coinbase thought-about the severity of the Dogecoin node exploit as “low” and “informative.” In response to Roqqit, “We never received confirmation that Coinbase updated to a non-vulnerable version of Dogecoin.”

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