Jameson Lopp: “I attacked the Bitcoin test network”
The co-founder of the Casa platform carried out a so-called griefer attack on the Bitcoin test network. The attack interrupted the synchronization of nodes, which was the first to be noticed by the scammers. Jameson Lopp said that his attack resulted in the creation of over 165,000 blocks in just a week. Under normal conditions, their creation would have taken several years. A “grief attack” involves the creation of many transactions that increase the load…