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#188 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum 2.0
Lex Fridman Podcast
Ethereum and the Multi-Client Architecture
There was a bug discovered in the software client Prism that prevented roughly 70% of validators on the network from producing blocks. I think the thing that we generally learn from these experiences is just how valuable it is to have this multi-client network. So even in this most recent incident, like Prism was not producing blocks, but all the other clients were still producing blocks. And then also Ethereum back in 2016 had this fun event that we call the Shanghai Doss attacks. They're called that because the attacks started right on the first day of our annual conference, DevCon,. That happens to be in Shanghai that year.
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