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Bitcoin Gold (BTG) was victimized over the weekend when malicious miners overtook its blockchain as a means of performing a 51 percent attack.A 51 Percent Attack Can Be Very DangerousThe miners saw to it that approximately $72,000 in BTG funds were double spent. This is money in their pockets after they gained control of the network’s hash rate. They performed two separate attacks on the network; the first saw them net gains of approximately $19,000 while the second earned them more than...

After experiencing a nasty 51 percent attack roughly one year ago, Vertcoin has been subjected to another such attack on its blockchain.Vertcoin: The Victim Once Again51 percent attacks occur when hackers secretly infiltrate a specific blockchain and then begin mining their own chain through the ledger. Granted the attacker has enough mining power under his or her belt, their chain can potentially overtake the ledger originally governed by the cryptocurrency or company in question.After a...