Core Devs Call: 51% Attack Solutions

September 25, 2020

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ETC Core Devs Call - 51% Attack Solutions

51% Attack Proposals

ECIP 1092 51-percent attack solution PirlGuard by Callisto (Draft) - was skipped, nobody spoke in favor of it.
ECIP 1094 VeriBlock Proof-of-Proof 51%-Attack Prevention (Draft) - was skipped, there will be a presentation by max next week.
ECIP 1096 51% Attack protection system based on Bitcoin Merged Mining (Draft) - was discussed.
ECIP 1097 Checkpointing based 51% attack resistance (Draft) - was discussed, requires either a hardfork or optionally a soft fork, we would have to chose trusted parties for committee.
ECIP 1099 Calibrate Epoch Duration (Last Call) - ECIP 1099 remains in "last call" but new block numbers (pushed back to allow besu to implement it), this will move to "accepted" next friday unless you raise your concerns, core developers start working on implementations and preparing releases.
ECBP 1100 Modified Exponential Subjective Scoring (Draft) - ECBP 1100 was demonstrated on the "messnet" testnet, it moves to "active" with a mordor block number for testing, mainnet decision depends on testnet progress, no mainnet block number yet.