UPDATE: "supercomputing" Has Taken Over The Miner Witness Queue!

in #steemit8 years ago

Yesterday, I noticed supercomputing​ has taken over the mining queue. This is the run down from yesterday:

  • Around 10 pm UTC time I made my first post about the concern. A few miners responded with concern as well.
  • An hour later, I made another post expressing my frustration. A few miners responded with disheartening​ comments.
  • Another hour later, It gets to a point I believed this needs immediate attention. I made a post with a Warning title.
  • Finally, at about 1am UTC, @officialfuzzy noticed it and commented that he will inform the right people.
  • And a few more hour later, @rainman commented that they were aware of the "loophole" that supercomputing is exploiting, and is fixing it. They will implement this fix in the next hardfork.
  • This morning @liondani brought good news, that the fix is ready.

Here is today's update: Apparently, ​supercomputing is exploiting a "loophole" in the mining algorithm. The fix is ready. But, There is no official word about when it will be implemented.

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I'm pleasantly surprised that so few people decided to abuse that loophole before a fix got made.

I guess that is considered a bug bounty for him.