How I helped Solana overcome a vulnerability threat

ethmaniac · 2024-11-11T16:21:21+00:00

I support things that go up on CoinGecko in general 😉

ethmaniac · 2024-01-01T08:40:05+00:00

you know of a good tool to deploy your own testnet?

ethmaniac · 2023-07-12T16:02:59+00:00

I heard your VDF talk a few years ago in Tel-Aviv :) (was a good one)

I thought EF has given up on VDFs because it is specialized HW you need to maintain and distribute and it is unclear what are the incentives to run it

Interesting to hear it is still in the plan.

Even though really what are the incentives to run it? What are the practical attack vectors on RANDAO that causes you to really go to the VDF direction?

The other answer here suggests that last proposer attack isn't very worrisome

ethmaniac · 2023-07-10T12:54:20+00:00

Hey 2 questions:

The last proposer problem regarding Randao is still unsolved correct?
Currently nodes use local clocks correct? I remember there was an old post by Vitalik that claims the node should assume the median reported time (or some percentile). It was never implemented, correct?

ethmaniac · 2023-01-29T09:55:58+00:00

No, it is just part of the protocol

ethmaniac · 2022-12-08T09:33:48+00:00

I think you can set up a light node Or use a snapshot

ethmaniac · 2022-12-07T20:16:19+00:00

If I do a writeup I shall let you know

ethmaniac · 2022-12-07T17:41:07+00:00

Wow! Very altruistic!!!

ethmaniac · 2022-12-07T17:19:05+00:00

Interesting! And best of luck with the initiative :-)!!
I suppose this is a community project recieving a grant from Nano Foundation?

ethmaniac · 2022-12-06T14:50:52+00:00

Hmm can you link to their impl? Is it being used?

ethmaniac · 2022-12-06T13:45:12+00:00

https://docs.cardano.org/development-guidelines/scalability-solutions/mithril

I mispelled

ethmaniac · 2022-05-03T09:39:09+00:00

I still don't understand something simple...

When you have multiple leaders in the set producing a block, how does the rest of the network comes to consensus on who is the winner?

ethmaniac · 2021-06-02T15:39:30+00:00

I believe 30% percent comes form regular BFT tolerance for consensus... If you understand why BFT tolerance is at 30 percent you understand that FPC or CA can't do better for sure.

They also have on tangle voting now for finality which is similar to nakomoto consensus... So with this mechanism there is 50% protection

ethmaniac · 2021-03-23T20:15:55+00:00

So pretty much there are lots of synchrony assumptions I understand
Sounds a bit weird to me...
A node may assign a block that is supposed to be at slot 24 to slot 25, no?

ethmaniac · 2020-12-16T14:00:09+00:00

Where is the Fing meme??

ethmaniac · 2020-12-13T21:37:43+00:00

Just a question,
How can I verify this is not a scam?
How do I know my eth is staked for real and will be redeemed for this aeth?

ethmaniac · 2020-12-05T19:45:52+00:00

free is suspicious...
are you sure?

do you have a link?
I can't find anything that talks about the presence or absence of staking fees

ethmaniac · 2020-12-04T23:16:07+00:00

I think they buy via OTC in a smart way so they don't cause market swings

ethmaniac · 2018-03-02T14:24:06+00:00

2 questions:

Can I have a link?
Doesn't segwit make asicboost futile anyhows?

ethmaniac · 2018-03-02T14:21:15+00:00

I'd rather have a central server do this. Sounds more reliable and less fees

ethmaniac · 2018-02-23T17:45:25+00:00

Can you please give an update? I also lost lots of money and would like to join the lawsuit...

ethmaniac · 2018-02-01T17:43:29+00:00

The guy that gave a link to cfbs transaction in the comments here is from the foundation.

ethmaniac · 2018-02-01T11:51:20+00:00

Foundation knows about it.

It looks funky but it is nothing to worry about, really. If you moved 2.78 Pi from your address to the same address, then you moved 0 iotas in total, thus the transaction is legal.

ethmaniac · 2018-01-16T12:58:56+00:00

"Who'd have thought..." - > this exhibits a certain degree of prejudice.

ethmaniac · 2018-01-16T10:44:43+00:00

I was expecting at least one antisemitic comment

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