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Etheruem Nodes Left Useless By Critical Software Bug Leaving Network Vulnerable To Geth Monopoly
Summary: 13% of Ethereum nodes have been rendered useless by a critical bug which was first highlighted on Github in May and June. Minority clients Parity-Ethereum and OpenEthereum versions 2.7 and later have a bug in the software which prevents nodes from syncing with the network's latest block. The issue will take weeks to months to ...
13% of Ethereum nodes have been rendered useless by a critical bug which was first highlighted on Github in May and June.
Minority clients Parity-Ethereum and OpenEthereum versions 2.7 and later have a bug in the software which prevents nodes from syncing with the network's latest block. The issue will take weeks to months to fix, according to a Github discussion board, and will place more responsibility on majority client Geth.
Clients are different code implementations of the blockchain. The different implementations protect against attacks by maintaining separate systems so if one goes down the others can cover. Majority client Geth supports 80% of the network, a percentage which may increase if broken node operators chose not to fix the problem.
By Emily Mason
Tags: Ethereum,Geth
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