Tagged: bitpico

August 7, 2018 @ 11:23 am By Cali Haan  |  

Wall Street Journal writers Paul Vigna and Shane Shifflett claim to have identified 175 coordinated crypto “pump and dump” groups manipulating crypto markets in their favour. The journalists analyzed data and online communications of traders from January of this year to July and identified 121… Read More

July 12, 2018 @ 3:35 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A hacker going by the name of ‘Bitpico’ on Twitter claims that a ‘stress test’ he or she conducted on the Bitcoin Cash cryptocurrency network shows that 98% of Bitcoin Cash’s node are located on the same rack server. https://twitter.com/bitPico/status/1016228867948851200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1016228867948851200&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbitcoinist.com%2Fbitcoin-cash-test-node-centralization%2F A rack server is a… Read More

April 6, 2018 @ 5:55 am By Cali Haan  |  

The Lightning Network meant to help Bitcoin and Litecoin scale to handle more payments has been under sustained DoS (Denial of Service) attack emanating from an friendly anonymous source or sources known as “BitPico.” The attack began March 22, 2018, and BitPico took credit publicly… Read More