Bitcoin Affiliation, a non-profit liable for the Bitcoin SV (BSV) blockchain, has revealed intentions to freeze block rewards and sue a malicious miner for breach of contract, in accordance with an Oct 16 press assertion.
Based on the Affiliation, the mentioned miner has been appearing maliciously on the BSV chain since June, when he began producing empty blocks. This motion has negatively affected the chain and impacted “trustworthy miners and companies that work together with the Bitcoin SV community.”
Wikipedia outlined an empty block as a block that doesn’t maintain any transaction data aside from the era transaction.
The miner was additionally accused of regularly altering their Coinbase string to keep away from detection. Nonetheless, the Affiliation recognized the miner tackle to be “1KPSTuJMCMRXrTWHfCwpiRZg1ALbJzh844.”
The Affiliation famous that whereas the miner’s actions haven’t been inherently dishonest per the whitepaper rule, his deliberate refusal to gather new transactions broadcast to a node quantity to “dishonest habits.”
“This miner is actively attacking the community in an try to reap block rewards whereas disrupting the financial exercise of harmless customers, companies, and trustworthy miners.”
In addition to mining empty blocks, Bitcoin Affiliation accused the miner of coordinated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assaults on key community infrastructure and providers.
The physique revealed that makes an attempt to achieve the miner as confirmed abortive, It continued that it’s now searching for to pursue authorized actions in opposition to the miner whereas additionally urging related exchanges to freeze the accrued block rewards.
In the meantime, some inside the BSV group have defended the miner’s proper to create empty blocks, saying it’s merely an financial determination. One consumer identified that that is what decentralization is all about, and there’s no breach of contract.
Satoshi rolling over in his decentralized grave ser. There isn’t a breach of contracts solely possibly breaching your social contract lol
— dirky (@dirkyville) October 17, 2022
BSV is a fork of Bitcoin Money (BCH) and at present trades for $48.65.
