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All the tweets about it being a well known drawback are missing the point: yes, we knew that there's a general class of attacks affecting PoW this way, but it's
by Ar-Curunir 4y ago
All the tweets about it being a well known drawback are missing the point: yes, we knew that there's a general class of attacks affecting PoW this way, but it's the first time AFAIK that there's been public evidence of this attack actually occurring.
- shmoneforeight 4y agoTo reaffirm Ar-Curunir, even the author of the original selfish mining paper thinks this is a big deal: https://twitter.com/ittayeyal/status/1555665714178101249 https://twitter.com/ittayeyal/status/1555665714178101249
- shmoneforeight 4y agoAnd now, the second author of the selfish mining paper joins in: https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/1555926860067921920 https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/1555926860067921920
- cryptoisthekey 4y agoFinally, even @foldfinance and @mesquka are toning down their comments. @foldfinance: "F2pool is doing additional exploitive behavior besides the one described here, sorry if that was not clear in our tweet." @mesquka: "Yes, the specific execution of this particular attack is unique to ethereum due to it's dynamic difficulty adjustment, but block withholding and timestamp manipulation as a class of attacks are well known."