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More recently Vitalik has said Ethereum PoS is at least a couple of years away, likely due to new attack vectors that require further research https://arxiv.org
by gh55 5y ago
More recently Vitalik has said Ethereum PoS is at least a couple of years away, likely due to new attack vectors that require further research https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.10086 https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.10086, one of which enables an attack with only 0.09% of the total staked. It would have been foolish to fork knowing attacks like these are still being discovered.
"with more than 99.6% probability, an adversary with 0.09% of total stake is in
a position to execute a 1-reorg for any given day."
Another which could prevent the chain moving forwards indefinitely.
"an adversary controlling 15% of stake can stall PoS Ethereum"
- nostrademons 5y agoI heard June-ish 2022, which is a couple quarters away, not a couple years. Could potentially be delayed further, but 3 quarters doesn't seem unreasonable. https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4345 https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4345
- dannyw 5y agoThat's just a temporary delay, not when PoS would ship. The recently discovered attacks are pretty bad and the mitigations are band aids.
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