DDoS attack onto Lightning Network nodes is confirmed by Alex Bosworth, one of the developers of technology.
Alex Bosworth Twitter
The developer retwitter the screen of correspondence with BitPico in Slack, where the BitPico team announced the creation of a special tool for attack.
Slack screenshot, reposted by Bosworth
Bosworth also wrote that there was no vulnerability in the Lightning Network.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued New Yorker and Veritaseum-related companies that have been caught by the agency in conducting an unregistered ICO with signs of fraud. It is reported by Cointelegraph.
According to documents published on the network, the SEC intends to hold Reggie Middleton accountable and immediately freeze the assets of Veritaseum Inc. and Veritaseum LLC.
The Commission claims that the defendants raised about $ 14.8 million through an initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017 - early 2018. At the same time, many investors were misled, as the company distorted information about the conditions of the token sale and deliberately hid some significant details.
The American regulator claims that the project still has about $ 8 million of illegally raised funds. According to the SEC, these assets must be frozen immediately.
Amid this news, the Veritaseum (VERI) rate has fallen by 70%. Now the coin is trading near the $ 5 mark, although at the beginning of 2018 its rate was approaching $ 500.
Veritaseum was created as a financial p2p platform, involving the movement of capital without traditional intermediaries. Also, VERI was positioned as a utility token for use in consulting services and access to various research works.
In 2017, Veritaseum blockchain startup fell victim to hackers, having lost $ 8.4 million from ICO investors.