Welcome to this week’s edition of Blockchain Threat Intelligence. Today we are going to cover an all out war that broke on the newly forked BCH ABC blockchain, a couple of minor DeFi incidents, and plenty of research material to keep you occupied during the winter season. Enjoy and try to avoid stealing Borat’s identity as a KYC on exchanges. Chenqui, thanks for your donations in the latest Gitcoin round.
News
Chinese police reports that it seized $4.2B worth of cryptocurrencies from PlusToken scammers. A related report by Onchain Research reveals additional details on how CCP handled seized funds.
BlockSeer, a blockchain analytics company, introduces a beta Bitcoin mining pool which will only include “legitimate” transactions. The experiment raises questions about trying to censor the inherently decentralized network and the futility of the effort.
Hacks
Starting on November 20th, 2020 a voluntarism.dev miner group conducted a 51% attack to against the newly forked Bitcoin Cash ABC blockc…
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