>Not if I'm looking at the block times or PoS participation rates. The attacker can feed me their own fork while preventing me from seeing the actual highest-di

>Not if I'm looking at the block times or PoS participation rates. The attacker can feed me their own fork while preventing me from seeing the actual highest-difficulty chain, but their fork will be suspiciously weak, so I'll know not to trust it. Would be really interested to read a paper that invents a confirmation sureness metric based on distances between block times which takes into account eclipse attacks.