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:

00:00Intro

01:30Justin Drake

04:0551% attacks

11:22Spectrum of attack outcomes

14:33Attackers vs defenders

19:22$5.25B economic security

23:17Tactics

30:46Timing the attack

34:13Hardware attacks

39:43Infrastructure attacks

44:24Regulation & violence attacks

46:50Vulnerable attack vectors

52:27How to prepare?

01:01:38Checkpoints & ASIC secret code

01:06:48The role of ideology

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