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I think the idea is that the protocol is resilient to differences in implementation. A bad actor, could for all intents and purposes, manipulate the implementat

I think the idea is that the protocol is resilient to differences in implementation. A bad actor, could for all intents and purposes, manipulate the implementation to their advantage. An implementation, reference or not, is merely a convenience for users who do not want to write their own clients (which is essential for adoption).

DennisP 9y ago
In fact, last year an attacker launched a denial of service on the main Ethereum implementation, and the network barely hiccuped because people just switched over to one of the others.