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beertourism
· 4. Mar 2021
Taraxa Network

Taraxa is specifically built to track informal transactions with audit trails for fast logic processing, speculative execution, low latency and true finality, all built on a next generation Block DAG topology. Taraxa, a fast and scalable public ledger specially designed to minimize business problems. Taraxa is implementing the following key technical innovations: Inclusive Block DAG protocol that maximizes throughput without compromising security Fair and efficient offers allowing the POS system to issue fair, efficient and inconsistent block offers Asynchronous immediate termination eliminates the risk of reverting and reorganizing the DAG Speculative execution to speed up stateless transaction processing Runlevel optimization that dramatically increases the execution speed of virtual machines. As blockchains evolve, innovative networks such as Bitcoin and Ethereum are facing scalability bottlenecks. One of the key metrics for scalability is total network throughput, usually measured in transactions per second (TPS). However, for single-chain topologies, an increase in TPS necessarily means a decrease in security, the restoration of which negates any advantages of TPS. To increase the TPS, the network can increase the block size β and / or the rate at which the block γ is generated. Increasing β necessarily increases the network latency δ because a larger block of data takes longer to transmit. This, in turn, reduces the timeliness with which all nodes learn about the block, thereby increasing the likelihood of branching. Increasing γ leads to an increase in the number of blocks offered on the network, but since only one block can be accepted in a single-chain topology, more blocks actually increases the number of choices that nodes must incorrectly bet on the longest chain. which leads to branching. Therefore, we see a tough trade-off between TPS and security. The loss of security is due to the fact that honest nodes are not coordinated, while a malicious adversary can coordinate their work outside the chain to create a set of blocks without branches and thus determine the longest chain. βγ ∝ TPS: block size and block generation increase TPS β ∝ δ: increase block size

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beertourism
· 29. Dec 2020
Cover team which was hacked yesterday scamed users

Thoughtfully read the chronology of the Cover hack, according to the team. I recommend that you familiarize yourself with it, it reminds of satirical pop scenes :) From the interesting: on 27.12 at 6pm UTC, developers received a signal from users that the Blacksmith contract in protocol allows minting tokens. The developers tried to alleviate the problem and went to bed quietly. On the morning of December 28 at 08:08:12 UTC, the first exploit occurred (the developers continued to sleep peacefully). Then, at 09:18:28 UTC, the same hacker continues to mine coins (developers continue to sleep :). Then the Grap Finance team (white hacker who later return back all ETH) joins the hack at 11:54:47 UTC (developers still sleeping :). At 10:54:00 UTC, some protocol user notices what is happening and tries to contact at least one of the developers who also continue to sleep :) Finally, at 12:04:00 UTC, two team members wake up and start trying to figure out the problem. Everyone already knows the end of the story and it`s very bad: while the developers were sleeping, an infinite number of Cover tokens merged on DEX swaps and Binance, up to 12.40 UTC, when Binance stopped trading. At the same time, the token continued to be traded on Uniswap and Sushiswap. And only at 4.35 PM UTC, the team announced on Twitter the release of a new token and a call not to buy the old one. At the same time, promising to exchange the owners of old tokens for new ones, but only to those who had tokens before the exploit (28.12 at 08:08:12 UTC). Thus, the unprofessional actions of the team set up a huge number of traders who only did their ordinary routine On the one hand, you can say: why did traders continue to pick up tokens on the leaks, because they should have suspected something was wrong? But on the other hand, everyone is living a real life, and not tracking every minute of tweeter. Moreover, Cover's official tweeter was silent, not saying a word about breaking the protocol. Only Binance announced about exploit and stop trading.

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