Gavin Wood Calls for a Quick Ethereum Hardfork to Fix Dos Attacks
Gavin Wood, founder of Ethcore, maintainers of Parity, Ethereum’s second most used client, has called for a hardfork stating that it would instantly fix “the underlying flaws that the attacker is exploiting.” For more than two weeks Ethereum has been undergoing a number of Dos attacks which exploit an underlying flaw: “EVM operations are grossly underpriced compared to the rest” – says Wood. The attacker has exploited this “with an inventive array of DoS contracts, all revolving around making clients do more work or consume more memory than the gas the transactions spent pays for,”....
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