Dogecoin Network Hit by Exploit, 69% of Nodes Crashed

Dogecoin, one of the most popular meme-inspired cryptocurrencies, faced a severe network exploit that crashed 69% of its nodes, highlighting critical security concerns. Vulnerability Exposes Network Weakness On December 12, Andreas Kohl, co-founder of Bitcoin sidechain Sequentia, announced that he had successfully crashed 442 out of Dogecoin’s 647 active nodes using an old ThinkPad laptop and a vulnerability called “DogeReaper.” https://twitter.com/aejkohl/status/1867078471190712741 The exploit, first disclosed publicly on December 4 by the “Department Of DOGE Efficiency,” enables anyone to remotely disable Dogecoin nodes by leveraging a segmentation fault in the network’s code. Segmentation faults occur when a program attempts to

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