Leaderboard
1145All-time rank
BG
Bitcoin Gold
Jan 23, 2020
$70K
Lost
$70K
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$70K
Unrecovered0% recovered
Bitcoin Gold suffered two 51% attacks on January 23-24, 2020, resulting in 29 blocks being reorganized and deep chain reorgs that enabled double-spending attacks. Attackers rented hash power from NiceHash for ~$1,200 per attack and successfully double-spent approximately 7,167 BTG (~$70K) across two separate attacks.
Binance adjusted its confirmation requirements after the incident.
- Target
- Other
- Classification
- Key Compromise
- Technique
- Validator Key Compromised
- Attribution
- Unknown
- Chains
Bitcoin Gold
Event timeline
- Jan 23, 2020Exploit executed — $70K drained via validator key compromised
- Attributed to Unknown
- Recovery status Unrecovered 0%