27-01-2020 11:46 via newsbtc.com

This Top Cryptocurrency Got 51% Attacked. Yet, It’s Up 19% And It’s a Problem

A researcher at the MIT Digital Currency Initiative discovered that Bitcoin Gold was 51 percent attacked on January 23. Yet, in the last 24 hours, the cryptocurrency has increased by 19 percent in price.
In a report published on code repository GitHub, MIT DCI research assistant James Lovejoy said two seperate attacks were carried out on Bitcoin Gold blocks within a span two days.
More attacks can happen and still, price of the cryptocurrency is up
A 51 percent attack is quite possibly the most
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