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The Hand-off Problem - by init4 - the technology

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Authors’ Note: init4 is a research collective working on next-generation Ethereum tools. This is a research note, not a disclosure document. While we will discuss nuances and gaps in the security models of deployed and proposed systems, it would be hyperbolic to describe these as “vulnerabilities” or as “previously unknown”. Censorship resistance remains a core value of cryptocurrencies in general, and Ethereum in particular. We believe that the benefits of transacting on-chain should be available to anyone, and that the rules of the chain should apply to all users and uses equally. Values drive this space forward. Engineering is the process of testing our values against reality to find where and how they break. subscribe? :) Defining Censorship We tend to model censorship as intentionally preventing transactions from appearing in the canonical ordering (i.e. transaction exclusion). We consider orders to be fair or neutral when they depend entirely on the economic outcome for the order

Authors’ Note: init4 is a research collective working on next-generation Ethereum tools. This is a research note, not a disclosure document. While we will discuss nuances and gaps in the security models of deployed and proposed systems, it would be hyperbolic to describe these as “vulnerabilities” or as “previously unknown”. Censorship resistance remains a core value of cryptocurrencies in general, and Ethereum in particular. We believe that the benefits of transacting on-chain should be available to anyone, and that the rules of the chain should apply to all users and uses equally. Values…

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