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The group responsible for the attack is Voluntarism.dev, which describes itself as a collective of “old-guard miners and whales” from the Bitcoin Cash community.

Though November’s hard fork prevented Bitcoin Cash itself from taking on that feature, Voluntarism.dev aims to prevent BCHABC from adopting the feature as well.

Earlier this week, Voluntarism.dev carried out a 51% attack on BCHABC, gaining control of a majority of the blockchain’s hashrate.

Given Bitcoin Cash’s massive advantage, it is not yet clear whether BCHABC will be able to resist further attacks—even if those attacks are carried out by a small faction of the community.

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