Tag: Coinmetrics

The privacy blockchain Verge (XVG) suffered a 51% attack in the late hours of Monday, February 15. The attack affected more than 560,000 blocks containing XVG transactions and led to a massive drop in the price of XVG.  Verge Suffers 51% Attack. Antoine Le Calvez, operations manager of analytical firm CoinMetrics, was the first to report the attack. Calvez noticed Verge's blockchain reorganization, often identified as a sign of a 51% attack. He explained that the CoinMetrics node had diverged from…

For most days last month, the performance of Ethereum was not impressive while Bitcoin was able to gain enough momentum that pushed its price to the upside to become the cryptocurrency asset with the best performance. In recent times, Coinmetrics released the State of the Network report which noted that the market capitalization of Bitcoin increased by 17% within the previous week. Likewise, it said that the active addresses rose to 928,000 (12.2% increment). Nevertheless, the outstanding statistic was the rise in Bitcoin transaction…