Shortly after being entwined in a legal decision in the U.K., the Bitcoin.org website has faced another battle, this time on the technical front. According to the site’s pseudonymous operator, Cobra, Bitcoin.org was hit with an “absolutely massive” distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. CoinDesk was able to access the site without issue. Decrypt reported on Monday that attackers had demanded 0.5 bitcoin ($17,012) to have the site’s services and operations restored to… Source link
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