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Upgrading Ethereum | 2.3 Consensus

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A technical handbook on Ethereum's move to proof of stake and beyond.

Here's the opening sentence of a paper about attacks on the Ethereum 2.0 consensus protocol: The Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Ethereum consensus protocol is constructed by applying the finality gadget Casper FFG on top of the fork choice rule LMD GHOST, a flavor of the Greedy Heaviest-Observed Sub-Tree (GHOST) rule which considers only each participant's most recent vote (Latest Message Driven, LMD). If that makes perfect sense to you then feel free to skip this chapter entirely. Otherwise, read on! Our aim is to understand that sentence in all its parts. There's a lot to unpack, but we'll take…

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