Ethereum Might Not Be as Decentralized as You Think
2018年11月9日 - 02:44AM
ADVFN Crypto NewsWire
Bitcoin Global News (BGN)
November 08, 2018 -- ADVFN Crypto NewsWire -- In the face of
the notorious data breaches such as Facebook’s earlier this year
and Equifax’s last year that affected millions of average citizens,
we have been promised time and time again that the Blockchain is a
safer place to store our sensitive data, or, that which might cause
our identities to be stolen. Just look at the rhetoric of Satoshi’s
original white paper if you want what is most likely the best
possible example of this.
Certain news that has come out of
Prague’s recent Devcon4 conference, which amounted to a massive
meeting on all thing’s Ethereum, seems to provide a contrast in
this respect. More specifically, Coindesk released an article today
that cites the opinion of the well known Ethereum core developer,
Péter Szilágyi, in reminding us that the Ethereum network may be
far less secure than we think.
His major conclusion on the subject
that most directly affects the average Ethereum investor, according
to Coindesk, seems to be that nothing is as secure as running a
full Ethereum node. If you are not running the network client on
your machine and you are instead, using something like Metamask or
another third party wallet, then you are risking your personal
information being outed one day. Keep in mind that this is not a
fact but it is a key Ethereum developer’s opinion based on data
that he apparently cited in an interview around the time of the
conference.
Included in this data was his
finding in conducting research on an Ethereum sidechain project,
that metadata leaks do happen when users engage with anything
mentioned above, including Dapps. Therefore, with this in mind, it
is easy to think: okay, but how will Ethereum scale if we avoid all
Dapps and sidechains?
Szilágyi says that to solve this,
Ethereum users need to full nodes, developers need to work harder
on “anonymizing” the entire network using the examples of Tor and
I2P and developers need to not drive users away by blaming them for
privacy leaks on the network.
Over time, we will see if the
development community puts any of this into action.
By: BGN Editorial Staff
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