

Price noted that the situation would trigger issues with several services within the ecosystem because they might have failed to allocate adequate RAM to store many transactions within the mempool.Īn empty block exploit happens when crypto miners opt not to include transactions within the blocks they are processing.

On the other hand, the network mempool, used to queue transactions awaiting addition in a block, has millions of unprocessed transactions. Bitcoin SV suffers an empty block attackĪccording to Todd Price, a Curriculum Specialist for the Bitcoin Association, most Bitcoin SV blocks do not contain any transactions. The Bitcoin Association has since reached out to all the relevant exchanges urging them to freeze block rewards linked to the attack. The network was attacked after a majority of hash power started mining blocks containing no transactions. The Bitcoin SV network has suffered from an empty block exploit.

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