Optimizing a 51% Attack | Justin Drake | The Mining Pod
Today we are joined by Justin Drake an Ethereum researcher that collaborated on the ETH 2.0 consensus change. We talk about variations of mining attacks on Bitcoin.
Justin Drake: https://twitter.com/drakefjustin
Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
01:30 Justin Drake
04:05 51% attacks
11:22 Spectrum of attack outcomes
14:33 Attackers vs defenders
19:22 $5.25B economic security
23:17 Tactics
30:46 Timing the attack
34:13 Hardware attacks
39:43 Infrastructure attacks
44:24 Regulation & violence attacks
46:50 Vulnerable attack vectors
52:27 How to prepare?
01:01:38 Checkpoints & ASIC secret code
01:06:48 The role of ideology
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