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A Gentle Introduction to Ethereum Networking overlay stack DevP2P

URGENT ALL MINERS: The network is under attack. …a computational DDoS, i.e. miners and nodes need to spend a very long time processing some blocks. …due to the EXTCODESIZE opcode, which has a fairly low gas price but which requires nodes to read state information from disk; the attack transactions are calling this opcode roughly 50,000 times per block. “ A DDoS attack on Geth in 2018, and founder of Ethereum calling for a switch to parity.This quote piqued my curiosity about the DDoS resistan...

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