Ethereum 2.0 Developer Offers White Hackers $ 5,000 to Hack Test Nets

Ethereum 2.0 Developer Offers White Hackers $ 5,000 to Hack Test Nets

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Ethereum developer Danny Ryan invited “white hackers” to hack Ethereum 2.0 testnets. The reward for discovered vulnerabilities will be $ 5,000. Danny Ryan posted on Twitter a call to look for vulnerabilities in Ethereum 2.0 testnets with a link to the Github page for more details and conditions. The targets of the “white hackers” are the codebases of mini-networks from Lighthouse and Prysm clients, designed to access the new version of the blockchain. Unlike Ethereum…

CoinGecko: Cryptocurrency Exchanges Artificially Increase Web Traffic To Their Sites

CoinGecko: Cryptocurrency Exchanges Artificially Increase Web Traffic To Their Sites

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According to researchers, nearly 50% of OKEx’s internet traffic comes from advertising sites that pay for clicks in cryptocurrencies. CoinGecko analysts argue that cryptocurrency exchanges can distort the amount of internet traffic to their sites. In particular, the report says that in the second quarter of 2020, the trading volume on the OKEx cryptocurrency exchange decreased, but the volume of Internet traffic increased by 239%. This is odd, because internet traffic metrics tend to correlate…