Bitcoin Cash SV’s ‘Blockchain Reorg’ Likely an Accidental Split, Not an Attack

Bitcoin Cash “Satoshi’s Vision” – otherwise called Bitcoin SV – suffered a block reorganization Monday by which transactions on two different blocks were overwritten.

Though it is possible these two blocks may have been maliciously overwritten by outside attackers, the most likely explanation for the temporary block reorg was due to an overload in transaction activity caused by a planned stress test.

Aimed at being “the biggest test ever conducted on any public blockchain” on its official webpage, the self-proclaimed Bitcoin Cash Professional Stress Test group is largely made up of Bitcoin SV proponents who wanted to “showcase the Bitcoin [Cash] network capacity.”

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