Tag: Plagues

DAI Depegs as Stablecoin Rout Plagues Crypto

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Coronavirus Plagues US Crypto Conferences

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There has been a rapid escalation of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak worldwide. Two major crypto conferences in the US have been affected by the epidemic so far. “Bitcoin 2020”, originally scheduled for March 27 and 28 in San Francisco, has moved to Q3 of 2020. The Chamber of Digital Commerce also postponed next week’s “DC Blockchain Summit 2020” conference. The rescheduled dates are not yet confirmed, according to the announcements on March 6. Bitcoin 2020 has assured all attendees that their tickets for the conference will automatically be valid for…

EOS Searches for Solutions as RAM Exploit Plagues Users

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The EOS community is once again left looking for solutions now that developers have identified a smart contract bug that allows malicious contract authors to effectively consume network resources owned by other users. EOS Smart Contract Exploit Consumes RAM To reduce spam, EOS requires users to purchase a scarce in-network resource called “RAM” to deploy smart contracts and run decentralized applications (dApps). Recently, developers discovered that attackers could create malicious smart contracts that exploit the scripting language’s notifications feature, which allows one contract to notify other contracts of specific events…