Privacy-focused cryptocurrency, PivX is under attack. Their official twitter account has tweeted out about an undergoing attack on its blockchain. They have asked users to invalidate block to bring users running full node to get back to correct chain.
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John McAfee has unveiled whitepaper of cryptocurrency, GHOST but has recently come into controversy with PivX team that claims GHOST’s whitepaper has been copied from 2018’s PivX whitepaper.
Many months back, cryptocurrency exchange, Bithumb stopped taking deposits and withdrawals of many cryptocurrencies including PivX, Ether Zero (ETZ), BHP and Cardano (ADA).
UPbit cryptocurrency exchange has announced that it will be removing trading support for Monero (XMR), Dash (DASH), Zcash (ZEC), Haven (XHV), Tube (TUBE) and PivX (PIVX). Trading will continue till 30th September 2019 and after that, you will be able to only withdraw them from exchange.
PivX Core Wallet 3.3.0 has been released by the team that brings some significant changes on the zPIV front. This is a mandatory upgrade and you must upgrade the wallet before 24th of June 2019, otherwise you will be on wrong blockchain.
Lead developer of PivX coin has published an important message about libzerocoin vulnerability that is affecting all coins based on Zcoin forks. While PivX coin was not affected / attacked with this vulnerability, for safety reasons, zPIV feature has been disabled.
PivX team has churned out iOS wallet which you can use with your iPhone or iPad. The app is similar to the android app that is available for quite sometime now.
PivX Light Wallet is now available for your desktop and that includes Windows, Mac and Linux. The Light wallet lets you manage your PivX without downloading the blockchain. Until now, the only way to manage your PivX was by downloading the Core client on the desktop and download the multi-GB blockchain.
Which is the best wallet for PIVX? Pivx is still a fairly new currency and it is obvious that companies like coinbase and cex.io will take some time to adopt this currency. But that does not mean there is shortage of Pivx wallets. There are some pretty amazing offline, mobile and web wallets for Pivx. There is even a Pivx wallet for Raspberry Pi.
PivX Core wallet v3.0.6 has been released that brings myriad bug fixes and stability enhancements. While it is not a mandatory upgrade if you are already running 3.0.5.1 but is recommended to upgrade to keep everything up to date with core updates. Several users were complaining about wallet syncing problems and this update is meant to solve those issues. How to Update to this version? First, gracefully exit/stop the current wallet from the wallet. (File – Exit or ./pivx-cli stop).