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Litecoin Just Rewrote Three Hours of Its Own History After a Planned Attack on Its Privacy Layer
By Trader Edge at 2026-04-27 05:53
Sentiment: Negative
TLDR Litecoin suffered a zero-day vulnerability that caused a 13-block chain reorganization on Saturday Attackers exploited the MimbleWimble Extension Block (MWEB) privacy layer to push invalid transactions Mining pools running updated software were hit by a denial-of-service attack, temporarily suppressing their hashing power A Binance-funded address suggests the attack was pre-planned, with some developers doubting [...] The post Litecoin Just Rewrote Three Hours of Its Own History After a Planned Attack on Its Privacy Layer appeared first on CoinCentral. Continue reading...
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