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Ken Adams
Ken Adams

Ken Adams

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From Proof-of-Stake, Private Keys Attacks and Unforgeable Costliness the Unsung Hero by Hugo Nguyen

Casper introduces the problematic concept of “inactivity leak”, where nodes get penalized for the mere crime of going offline. Whether you’re intentionally going offline to cause harm or not, it doesn’t matter. This is a super perverse rule because a) it introduces a new vulnerability where an attacker can DDOS honest validators into going offline & cause them to lose money and b) it potentially discourages nodes from staking for fear of losing money. This has a negative impact on overall security, since staking participation is extremely critical to PoS (more on this below).

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I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.

David Gilbertson

“More Human than Humans:” The Nature of Choice in “Blade Runner 2049”

Aakash Japi