Optimizing a 51% Attack | Justin Drake | The Mining Pod
Channel: Compass Mining
Date: 2023-05-16

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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