[2017-04-06] AsicBoost Exploit Claims Put Bitmain in Hot Water

[LiteCoinGuy]

AsicBoost Exploit Claims Put Bitmain in Hot Water

Bitcoin gained $40 in two hours on Wednesday evening as news broke that a bug was allowing miners - specifically Bitmain - to unfairly economize on costs.

Through the use of so-called AsicBoost technology, Bitmain’s miners were able to exploit a loophole in Bitcoin’s proof-of-work system.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/asicboos ... -hot-water

[OgNasty]

They sure rushed out new S9 & T9 batches when this controversy broke (although I think many of us have suspected this for more than a year now). Interesting that they put the batches out for sale before making a public statement about the issue like Jihan Wu had stated on his twitter feed.