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What's stopping me from attacking the network by renting 51% of the stake for a few blocks?
The Ethereum market cap today is about $200bn. Theoretically, buying 51% of it would cost a stunning $100bn. Good luck getting that money hahah.
However, I could ideally rent 51% of the staked eth for ...
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can someone explain this line of the whitepaper?
To show how ethereum had made it's language turing-complete Vitalik in his white paper gave this example:
"To show the motivation behind our solution(i.e using gas), consider the following ...
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Is it possible to use low mining complexity to remove some certain transaction in the past?
I have a question that has concerned me for a long time. It relates to the security and reliability of the blockchain applications.
Let's assume I want to build an application that uses Ethereum or ...
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DAPP vs Consensus attacks
Are contracts such as DAPPs on the Ethereum block chain vulnerable to consensus attacks like Bitcoin is, such as say, to Gambler's ruin?
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During a 51% attack, What Can the Attacker Actually Accomplish?
During an attack on the network, where the attacker has more than 51% of hashing power (or the equivalent of Ether in PoS), what can the attacker do and not do to the chain and the contracts on it?
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Is Ethereum secure against an attack by quantum computers?
Does Ethereum implement Post-quantum cryptography? Or will the network break once a malicious actor gains control of an effective quantum computer?
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