Things just got MESSy for potential Ethereum Classic 51% attackers
Ethereum Classic is using an idea Vitalik Buterin had in 2014 to help fend off 51% attackers. Over the past weekend, on block 11380000, a solution for the prevention of 51% attacks was introduced to the Ethereum Classic (ETC) community. Several such attacks have recently placed ETC at a crossroads, leaving the very survival of the chain uncertain. In the weeks that followed these attacks, the community worked to evaluate numerous potential solutions. The first one that has been implemented is called MESS, which stands for Modified Exponential Subjective Scoring. Its predecessor was first....
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