Bitcoin blockchain attacked, PoW algorithm proved reliable

Today, on Twitter, one of the users wrote that someone tried to transfer yesterday In the Bitcoin blockchain, a block with one "0". So he tried to trick the PoW protocol (Proof-of-Work).

“#Bitcoin is attacked: someone tried twice to transfer incorrect blocks that start only from scratch ...

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Glad my node immediately rejected this joker! ”

#bitcoin under attack:
twice someone tries to broadcast a bad block (proof of work failed: blocks start with only one zero .. 15 min later with not enough zero’s).

Glad my node rejects this joker immediately! pic.twitter.com/3yPEsTp91J

- Plan₿ (@ 100trillionUSD) October 13, 2019

The message says that an error has been detectedin a user node built on the Raspberry Pi and using a 500 GB SD card as storage so that there are no problems using it 24/7.

Bitcoin Blockchain Uses ConsistentPoW protocol (Proof-of-Work). This protocol is used to find a line of code that starts with a few zeros, around 19: these zeros reflect the complexity of the calculation and, as a consequence, the security of the transaction.

If a bitcoin transaction has only one 0 oreven a couple, as in this case, we can easily conclude that it took a little time to calculate the hash, and therefore there is a 99% chance that it was an attempt to attack bitcoin and push through an incorrect transaction.

Fortunately, the transaction was rejected by the specifiednode. This is a good example of how Bitcoin (BTC) and the PoW (Proof-of-Work) protocol proved to be resistant to any type of attack, even differing from the most famous 51% attack.