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RE: Witness Update - First Block - Updated to v0.19.3
I think my luck would be the same as yours, so you're braver than I am. And yet another reason why I don't plan to be a witness. At least not for a long while.
Glad to hear you're back up and running though and witnessed your first block. Hopefully, that's the sign of good things to come. Especially if these attacks can be fought off through better security. It just seems so infantile and senseless for them to be happening. Other than bringing everything down, what were they trying to accomplish? Was there an ulterior motive for it?
Looking better now, 2nd block already signed. :)
I guess the attack was just to prove that it was possible to disturb the whole blockchain. They could have made it much worse by crafting many more of these messages.
With the latest patch, this type of attack has been mitigated so as long as a majority of all nodes are updated we are safe.
Thanks again for your support!