How to Spot and Prevent an Eclipse Attack

Studies of blockchain architectures often start with the consensus algorithms and implicitly assume that information flows perfectly through the underlying peer-to-peer network, and peer discovery is sound and fully decentralized. In practice this is not always the case. A few years ago, a team of researchers looked at the Bitcoin1 and Ethereum2 networks in two […]

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