Bitcoin Cash

Bitcoin Cash Users Survive 51% Attack

May 15, 2019
Attack Types: 
51%
Entity Types: 
Blockchain
Target Entities: 
Bitcoin Cash

Summary # Bitcoin Cash (BCH) faced a 51% attack on May 15, 2019, in which a group of miners controlled the majority of the network’s hash power. Rather than an attempt at theft or network disruption, this was a unique situation where the miners intervened to prevent a malicious entity from exploiting a network upgrade to insert invalid transactions. The mining pools, BTC.com and BTC.top, spearheaded the move to protect the network’s integrity. ...