UC Berkeley boffins have found that strategies for squeezing extra profit out of Ethereum transactions come at the cost of other cryptocurrency investors and threaten the security and stability of the entire Ethereum ecosystem.
In a paper titled, “Extracting Godl [sic] from the Salt Mines: Ethereum Miners Extracting Value,” doctoral students Julien Piet and Jaiden Fairoze, with computer science professor Nicholas Weaver, throw down a hat-trick of allusions – gold, hodl, and Godel – to…
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