Ethereum Bug on Its Old Client Geth Leads to A Fork

Ethereum’s top software client, Geth, suffered an EVM bug attack affecting over half of its older nodes. This attack further led to a split on the chain, forming a fork. According to the report released on Go Ethereum GitHub on Tuesday, Geth v1.10.8 would be the hotfix to deal with the bug attack. As per statistics from Ethernodes, Geth runs approximately 75% of Ethereum nodes. The number makes up for at least 54% of Ethereum nodes affected by the EVM…