Resources
People often ask me "How did you learn how to hack?" The answer: by reading. This page is a collection of the blog posts and other articles that I have accumulated over the years of my journey. Enjoy!
- A while ago, Jacob reported a bug named p2p storms that ICF deemed wasn't worth fixing. If the blocks are 20mb each and the mempool is full, then the chain liveness are severely impacted. The author claims that this affects all chains and can be done cheaply with lots of large
MsgUpdateClientBasically, lots of data being processed will take down the chain. At the bottom of the article, they claim that the default maximum size of blocks should be lower and we shouldn't use the Sentry node architecture because of the large network propagation times.Now, if we fast forward to today, the author decided to take day some public chains to prove his point. From the arguments that they had with folks on Twitter, it appears that he's doing this to force the community to fix the bug. He took down Teritori Network, Archway and Terra using this.He keeps saying to increase the price of gas to make it economically unviable, faster block times and smaller blocks. According to Archway, it's a p2p networking problem rather than a block size thing; it's important to have the capability to have large. blocks for CosmWasm contract uploads. Overall, an interesting bug with a real world showcase.
