Censorship resistance is fundamental to any functioning cryptocurrency or blockchain project. It’s been a pillar of crypto from the start, one of the biggest reasons the whole movement got started. Wh...
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Should You Be Concerned About Flashbots Censorship?
52% of blocks from MEV-boost relays enforced OFAC sanctions in the past seven days 81% of the MEV-Boost relay market is dominated by Flashbots Flashbots — a research and development company vying to r...
Will Censorship Fork Ethereum?
He added, “I think what will happen is that if you want to build infrastructure which is going to last for a very long time, and it’s going to be global, then you’re going to build on the ...
Censorship should be tolerated in certain cases, says Ethereum co-founder
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The crypto industry was created in order to reach true democratization when it comes to governance, as well as true transparency ...
Buterin advocates for censorship tolerance in special cases
Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin has said solo validators should be tolerated if they censor blocks in special cases in an Oct. 17 tweet. I would say “be tolerated”. Slashing or l...
Validator Censorship Should “Be Tolerated” Says Vitalik Buterin – Trustnodes
“I’m a solo home validator in Country A. We are at war with Country B, and I decide that I’m not going to include donations to their military when it’s my turn to make a block,” a solo home validator ...
Concerns Grow Over Ethereum’s Potential Censorship After The Merge
The situation of 51% of OFAC-compliant blocks on Ethereum exacerbates the future of the network, exposing it to heightened risks of violations of its censorship resistance, or even worse, violations o...
Flashbots’ new upgrade could resolve censorship concerns
UAVE to address censorship resistance and decentralization concerns More than 50% of Ethereum blocks built today are OFAC-compliant TORN Price at the time of writing – $5.25 To address concerns regard...
Ethereum Transactions Are No Longer Censorship Resistant
Ethereum Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) boost-relays compliant with the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) rules are raising censorship concerns in the crypto market. At press time, 51% of ...
48% of Ethereum Blocks Face Censorship From OFAC-Compliant Flashbots – Technology Bitcoin News
For a couple of years now, MEV-Boost relays or Flashbots have become popular tools in order to gather the maximum value that can be extracted from Ethereum’s block production. However, in recent times...
51% of Ethereum blocks are now compliant with OFAC standards, raising censorship concerns
One month after the Merge, 51% of Ethereum blocks were compliant with OFAC standards, according to blockchain development Labrys’ data, as MEV-Boost relays take over market share. On Twitter, u...
Flashbots co-founder steps down after disagreements with team over censorship
Stephane Gosselin, co-founder of Flashbots, last month resigned from the maximal extracted value (MEV) service following disagreements with the team, he announced on Twitter. For a diverse and compet...
Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin suggested a way to mitigate ETH censorship
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Ethereum recently completed the Merge, meaning that it transitioned to Proof-of-Stake (PoS). But, even before the merge, and more...
Flashbots now accounts for 39% of Ethereum blocks as censorship concerns rise
Ethereum infrastructure service Flashbots is currently being used to create 39% of Ethereum blocks, even though it continues to censor transactions from sanctioned crypto mixing service Tornado Cash. ...
Vitalik Buterin Proposes Ways to Mitigate ETH Censorship
Long before the Ethereum network’s transition to Proof-of-Stake (PoS), censorship concerns have been a bone of contention. To mitigate these risks, Vitalik Buterin has proposed “partial block auctions...
Vitalik Buterin’s Proposal To Mitigate Ethereum (ETH) Censorship
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposes “partial block auctions” to mitigate Ethereum censorship risks. Vitalik Buterin aims to constrain the power of builders to prevent centralization and other...
Is Ethereum Under Attack? Unpacking the MEV-Boost Censorship Controversy
Key Takeaways The majority of Ethereum’s MEV-Boost relays are willing to censor transactions, due to OFAC sanctions concerns. Ethereum community members believe these relays’ actions constitute an att...
The Problem Tornado Cash Raises About Base Layer Censorship on Ethereum
On an otherwise quiet day last month, the crypto industry woke up to big news – the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added 45 public Ethereum addresses to the s...
Pundit Raises Fresh Censorship Concerns With Ethereum PoS
– Advertisement – A pseudonymous market watcher recently raised concerns about censorship with Ethereum’s PoS, especially with the use of MEV-boost. Ethereum’s transition to a PoS networ...
Is Ethereum Censorship a Concern Post-Merge?
Labrys said it has been internally tracking protocol censorship since the merge and was troubled by what it has found Practically this is not problematic if censorship free blocks are simply delayed f...
Private ETH Transfers May Achieve Ethereum Censorship Resistance without L1 Baselayer Privacy Default – crypto.news
Private ETH Transfers May Achieve Ethereum Censorship Resistance without L1 Baselayer Privacy Default. The Inbuilt Ethereum Censorship Resistance According to a Tweet by Tim Beiko, Ethereum, being a s...
Ethereum may now be more vulnerable to censorship — Blockchain analyst
Ethereum’s upgrade to proof-of-stake (PoS) may make it more vulnerable to government intervention and censorship, according to the lead investigator of Merkle Science. Speaking to Cointelegraph follo...
Proof-of-Work Proponents Question Validator Censorship as 59% of Staked Ethereum Is Held by 4 Companies – Bitcoin News
Prior to The Merge, Ethereum used to have dozens upon dozens of mining pools dedicating hashrate toward the blockchain network. That has all changed and most of the miners transitioned or plan on tran...
China ranks among top 10 countries by crypto adoption despite Bitcoin censorship
Despite an extensive crackdown and ban on crypto-related services, China is now ranking in the top ten among the countries leading in adopting digital assets. The latest data suggests that there might...
Hubble, Creator of ‘Censorship Resistant’ Stablecoin USDH, Raises $5 Million
On Thursday, Hubble Protocol—the Solana-based decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol behind stablecoin USDH—announced the completion of a $5 million fundraising round. Led by Multicoin Capital, the rai...
Industry Professionals Discuss ETH 2.0 Vulnerability to Censorship
Ryan Berckmans, discussed the potential consequences of Tornado Cash ban on ethereum network. The ethereum network transition update will be able to bear the censorship risks in the short and long ter...
The Merge May Present Risk of Censorship: AntPool
AntPool is one of the leading companies in the crypto mining industry. They think that The Merge is bringing the risk of censorship with it. The Merge is the most anticipated update on Ethereum blockc...
Will Ethereum 2.0 be vulnerable to censorship? Industry professional explains
The Ethereum network will be able to withstand censorship risks both in the short and long term, according to Ethereum community member and investor Ryan Berckmans. The ban of Ethereum-based privacy t...
Vitalik Buterin Explains How Ethereum (ETH) Can Resist Censorship After The Merge
Ethereum (ETH) creator Vitalik Buterin says the second biggest blockchain by market cap can remain censorship resistant after moving to proof-of-stake. After The Merge, Ethereum’s proof-of-work (PoW) ...
Using Financial Censorship to Prevent Crime Could Be Bad for Society
In the society foreshadowed by such schemes, Socrates wouldn’t just be executed – he would never exist in the first place. Crime, Durkheim would argue, represents a frontier of social transformation, ...
Crypto Mining Giant Says Ethereum’s Upcoming Merge Presents Risk of Censorship
Crypto mining pool AntPool is issuing a notice to its users as Ethereum’s (ETH) highly anticipated update dubbed The Merge approaches. In a new blog post, AntPool says that it will not be supporting i...