New Paper on Cryptocurrency and Security from Prof. Goldberg
A new paper from Associate Professor Sharon Goldberg, PhD student Ethan Heilman, and University of Pittsburgh researcher Yuval Marcus discusses eclipse attacks on blockchains, how these attacks are carried out on the Ethereum network, and what steps should be taken to guard against such attacks. The paper, entitled “Low-Resource Eclipse Attacks on Ethereum’s Peer-to-Peer Network,” has received attention from Bitcoin Magazine. The article can be found here, and the paper can be read here.