Archive for April, 2016
Uncle Mining, an Ethereum Consensus Protocol Flaw
Posted by SDLerner in Uncategorized on April 28, 2016
A year ago I was hired by Eth Dev Ltd through Coinspect to perform a security audit on the Ethereum design. One of our findings was that the uncle reward strategy in Ethereum was weird, and could lead to miners abusing the uncle rewards to almost triple the money supply. We discovered this problem because […]
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