“Stay away from doing [transactions] for a while till confirmed, unless you are sure you are submitting to latest Geth,” advised Andre Cronje.
A major consensus bug has affected more than half the Ethereum network’s nodes, causing those running older versions of Geth to split from the main network.According to Ethereum software developer Marius van der Wijden, an unknown individual or group exploited a vulnerability affecting earlier versions of Geth, one of Ethereum’s software clients. According to the developer, Geth clients and Ethereum nodes running software v1.10.7 or earlier are at risk of splitting from the network.“Users that run validators need to update their nodes quickly (in the next 10h I think) as they would otherwise vote on invalid committees,” said van der Wijden.A chain split has occurred on the Ethereum mainnet. The issue was resolved in the v1.10.8 release announced previously. Please update your
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