EightySix Four
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- Jul 17, 2004
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I want to learn more about this attack vector, this is the first time I've heard about this. Crazy.
This also kind of explains the wild swings I'm getting on my mining pool. I get the caching techniques but maybe in addition the mining pool servers be upgraded to handle the extra load until we eventually fork?
Early days for Ethereum yet
Indeed, there's reason to believe the attacker is a semi-famous bitcoin maximalist, which wouldn't be surprising in the least bit. It's an interesting attack vector for sure, but it also means the attacker has mixed economic incentives - hurt miners while keeping ETH prices up to sell what he's mining. Probably helping to minimize the damage.
State journaling should help deal with a huge part of the load making the attack more expensive then it is worth. Gas pricing for contract is supposed to look more like a market than a fixed pricing thing, but the user experience for miners on that front needs to be smarter or the pools need to start throwing their weight around w/regards to gas prices for contracts.
I've actually decided to spin up a Geth and Parity node inside of some VMs because I think network stability is something worth throwing CPU cycles at.
Onward