Who Pays For Ethereum’s Complexity? A Lead Developer Speaks Up
Is there trouble in paradise? Ethereum’s team lead, Péter Szilágyi had something to say. The man’s one of the most prominent ETH advocates over at Twitter, but, he was feeling “extremely frustrated” in his latest thread. The protocol’s core developer also used keywords like “overload,” and phrases like “might not be willing/able to do forever.” […]
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Former Monero lead maintainer, Riccardo Spagni, faces over 370 counts of fraud, forgery, and uttering. The charges against the developer stem from fraudulent activities he allegedly committed when he was still employed by Cape Cookies.
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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,”....