Bitpico published a series of information that proved that the attack was organized from a certain area, while a hacker group spent a few weeks over attacking the Bitcoin Cash network.
Bitcoin cash network may be the center of the attack Alibaba
A special screenshot taken from the findings of the hacker group shows that 98% of the IP addresses are almost adjacent.
A Twitter user confirmed a screenshot claim that servers were hosted in an Alibaba cloud farm.
According to estimates made by Bitpico, the $ 100 cost for 1 Bitcoin Cash node can reach $ 100,000 per month. Bitpico claimed that 49% of all Bitcoin Cash network nodes operate from Alibaba's premises.
Bitpico, who published an IP list about the Hacker group, also said that 8 of these addresses were acted to ban 8 of them. They also underlined that they are extremely central.
Some users have published the contradictory statistics and defended the BCH. For example, bchnodes.online indicates that the Bitcoin Cash node is currently active in 48 countries. The highest number of nodes is in the United States with 27.87%, China with 22.15% and Germany with 10.97%.