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RE: Witness arhag update: Aug. 1, 2016 to Aug. 8, 2016
I would be interested in hearing about what exactly they had done to exploit a vulnerability. I had also noticed something like 30 of their accounts in the queue and thought it was a little unbelievable.
+1 Ya, it would be interesting to find out exactly what they did.
Judging from the github fix, it says "The proposed solution is to make the final step of the POW dependent upon block id". So I guess it wasn't doing that.
https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/256
From the sparse details given it sounds like he was taking credit for the computational work of others with some sort of key switching spoof hack. Do we know how much supercomputing accumulated?