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   Three attacks against geth-based Ethereum clients(medium.com)

   3 points by cryptoisthekey 3y ago|0 comments
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   by cryptoisthekey 3y ago

   From the link: The first attack, ConditionalExhaust, entails creating "two-faced" transactions that are computationally intensive only when executed by block creators that cannot include them in a block, while they are very simple
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   by cryptoisthekey 4y ago

   Finally, 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,
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   by cryptoisthekey 4y ago

   The attack is called "Uncle Maker", as it allows attackers to displace main-chain blocks with their own blocks, thus making these displaced blocks become uncles. By analyzing the timestamps of the last 3 million blocks, it becomes
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   Israeli researchers discovered the first consensus-level attack on Ethereum(twitter.com)

   185 points by cryptoisthekey 4y ago|55 comments
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   by cryptoisthekey 6y ago

   According to a new paper by Aviv Yaish and Professor Aviv Zohar: 1) Mining ASICs are overpriced. 2) A portfolio of Bitcoins can imitate (and sometimes outperform) returns from mining hardware. 3) Bitcoin's volatility should increase ri
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   ASICs are overpriced, returns from mining can be imitated by a portfolio of BTC(twitter.com)

   1 points by cryptoisthekey 6y ago|1 comments