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Zcash May Be Getting Spammed but the Blockchain Is Doing Just Fine, the Company Behind It Says
Electric Coin Co., the organization behind Zcash, claims that concerns of a spam attack are mostly just fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD).
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Nano’s Network Flooded With Spam, Nodes Out of Sync
Developers encouraged node operators to throttle their bandwidth in response. They had to make it worse before it could get better.
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Crypto Lending Platform BlockFi Attacked With Flood of Fake, Abusive Sign-Ups
The malicious spree involved offensive language being placed in the first and last name fields on the account registration page.
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Stellar Tried to Give Away 2B XLM Tokens on Keybase. Then the Spammers Came
What was advertised to be a $120 million giveaway will now be much less. Here's why.
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Salesforce Wins Patent Tackling Email Spam With Blockchain
Salesforce has won a patent outlining how a blockchain-based platform can be used to prevent spam or other unwanted emails from hitting inboxes.
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Ethereum Spam Attacks Are Back – This Time on the Test Network
Following DoS attacks on the ethereum network last year, an attacker has picked an easier target to spam: Ropsten, the ethereum testing network.
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New Email Service Tackles Spam With Bitcoin Micropayments
Email-forwarding service Composed aims to help the global fight against spam by making senders pay a small fee in bitcoin.
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Why New Forms of Spam Could Bloat Bitcoin's Block Chain
The block chain has potential uses beyond storing transactions, but could they pose a risk to bitcoin?
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