Casa Associates Attacks Bitcoin Test Network Making It Generate Three Years of Blocks in One Week

Jameson Lopp, co-founder and financial chief security officer of Casa, a cryptocurrency self-hosting platform, said his malicious attack on the Bitcoin Test Network resulted in the generation of more than 165,000 blocks (the equivalent of three years' worth of blocks) in the past week.) When another user asked if the malicious attack was worth it, Lopp replied that it cost him $1 worth of electricity. The purpose of the malicious attack was to improve the test network for millions of bitcoins, not millions of bitcoins.