The Ethereum (ETH) price is up 5% in the last 24 hours while regaining the lost grounds. As of press time, ETH is trading at a price of $3,257 and a market cap of $382 billion. This price surge came despite the attack happening on the Ethereum blockchain.
The Ethereum blockchain network was under attack on Friday, August 27, as the hacker exploited some bug in the older versions of the Geth clients. The bug specifically impacted some of the older versions of Geth clients aka v1.10.7.
However, the Ethereum developers already released version 1.10.8 earlier in the week on August 24. The attack resulted in a chain split on the Ethereum mainnet affecting nearly 50% of older Ethereum clients. Ethereum developer Marius VanDerWijden update about the event. He said:
It seems that someone found the bug we fixed in @go_ethereum v1.10.8 and exploited it causing all geth nodes with earlier versions to split from the network. If you are running v1.10.7 or earlier please update!!!
Tim Beiko from the
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