ETHNews: Possible Miner Bribing Schemes Via Ethereum Contracts

  • Friday, 09 February 2018 19:19
ETHNews' Adam Reese does a deep dive into the technical implications of a recent paper that outlined three types of EDCCs that could, theoretically, be used to bribe Ether miners to change their behavior in ways that benefit the briber. This article describes the three schemes and brings in commentary and additional explanations from Vitalik Buterin, Martin Swende, and one of the paper’s authors, Patrick McCorry.

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