THELOGICALINDIAN - EOS New York has put advanced a annoying analysis about the arrangement It seems not all block producers are absolute and some of the positions are controlled by a axial entity
Single Entity Registered Six BP Domains
EOS New York has apparent that six of the accepted block producers are affiliated to a distinct entity, potentially demography abroad about a third of the arrangement block assembly power. Rewards and computational assets are additionally added centralized than expected.
Based on URL ownership, EOS New York apparent the domains for six block producers were purchased by a distinct email account.
EOS Network Centralized, Attackable
Until recently, the arch allegation was that EOS had a asymmetric cardinal of block producers in China. However, in the case of fair appliance and voting, this would artlessly be a amount of added Chinese entities applying and actuality elected.
The analysis arrives at an adverse time for the EOS network. At this point, assets are acutely accountable and acicular against distributing the EIDOS badge through a action of apish mining.
Additionally, acceleration and ability constraints fabricated the EarnBet app column its 30-day apprehension afterwards a accommodation to move to addition network. The all-embracing aggregate on the arrangement has been lowered, and dApp action has absent the volumes advancing from bots.
Currently, there are no constraints for acceptable a block producer, and no charge to acknowledge a accessible identity. This clashes with some of the awful accessible communities, including EOS Canada and EOS New York, which accept helped acceptance and accord back the barrage of EOS.IO.
But afterward, bearding producers and accompanying whales managed to get into the account of 21 BPs. This opens the aperture to a abeyant Sybill attack, area bearding awful actors can annex the vote and consensus, and accept adulterated affairs or exploits.
The achievability for a distinct article to authority the assets of assorted block producers additionally raises the catechism of whether 21 nodes are abundant to accomplish safe consensus. The EOS association still has the achievability to not vote the affiliated BPs, which are still not amid the adopted top producers.
The EOS activity is one of the best arresting platforms, but has aggregate assorted criticisms, starting from the ICO action itself. EOS accounts are additionally not censorship-free, and the Constitution has rules to benumb bill and tokens and ban users.
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