Cardano blockchain split snafu shows crypto’s crazy side is as present as ever – DL News
The Decentralised
- Cardano has been rocked by an attack.
- It’s unclear if the incident was malicious or just a classic case of testing in production.
- Charles Hoskinson says he’s called the FBI.
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GM, Tim here.
On Friday, Cardano suffered arguably its biggest attack ever.
A pseudonymous developer, hiding behind a picture of South Park antagonist Eric Cartman, used code generated by an AI chatbot to split the $15 billion blockchain in two.
Unintentional blockchain splits are highly undesirable because they undermine the core purpose of a blockchain: to provide a single, consistent, and immutable shared ledger of transactions.
It’s not clear if…
