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December 2020

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DDoS on Greenhost, may affect Snowflake
by David Fifield 23 Dec '20

23 Dec '20

Greenhost sent an email saying that since last 2020-12-17, there has been a DDoS attack against their infrastructure. This may affect Snowflake, because the broker and bridge are hosted by Greenhost in Amsterdam. > Please bear with us as Greenhost and the eclips.is platform are > suffering from some of the largest DDoS attacks we have faced. > > Between Thursday and now we have seen targeted attacks on one of our > users and directly at Greenhost. > > Our upstream provider in Miami has unfortunately completely dropped > the eclips.is infrastruccture routing as they could not withstand the > attacks. We are working to put that connectivity back up as we speak. > > The situation in Amsterdam is more under our control, and both > Eclips.is and Greenhost networks are available as of writing. 2020-12-17 09:10 outage caused by a major DDOS attack https://status.greenhost.net/incidents/19 > Since 10:10 CET, we have been experiencing outage caused by a major > DDOS attack. > > All VPSes, webhosting and emailservers were affected by this outage. > > We have deflected the attack and worked to recover all systems. 2020-12-20 15:00 Repeated DDoS attacks on our infrastructure https://status.greenhost.net/incidents/20 > After the DDoS attack last Thursday we did see recurring attacks of > increasing magnitude on our infrastructure. We are working through the > weekend with our technical service providers to increase resilience of > our network. We will update you as the situation progresses. At this > point our services are operational.

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Join the Minima community!
by Ryan Hennebry 14 Dec '20

14 Dec '20

Hi Tor Community, I’m the Community Manager of Minima, a cryptocurrency project based in London. Minima is a PoW base-layer blockchain protocol with a novel design, that runs entirely on mobile devices. Since every user runs a full node that validates and constructs the chain via an app, the protocol will be able to reach a user base not yet possible with any other blockchain protocol. This will allow our network to be as decentralised as possible, ultimately providing individuals a peer-to-peer censorship-resistant network for the transfer information and value. Our founder and lead developer Paddy Cerri built the Minima blockchain, and we are now entering testnet phase. Since Paddy’s true vision is to build a network where individuals have the freedom to send information and value without censorship, I thought that our protocol may be of interest to you. I wondered if any of you would be interested in helping us build censorship-resistant applications on the Minima protocol, debugging our code, or simply joining our community and learn more about crypto. I would love for you to join our discord community if you’re interested: https://discord.gg/SgvQ6mc Also, here are some resources that will give you more insight into Minima & Paddy: https://minima.global/blog/freedom https://minima.global/blog/blockchains-in-a-bitcoin-world-by-paddy-cerri-at… Thank you for your time and I look forward to meeting you all. Best, Ryan Hennebry / Community Manager ryan.hennebry(a)minima.global / +44 (0) 751 0989 043 Minima Unter Altstadt 28, 6300 Zug (Switzerland) 14-18 Great Titchfield Street, London, W1W8BD (UK) www.minima.global

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