Attacking Block Creation
However, these protections can be overcome in a variety of different ways. The block creation process, which collects transactions into blocks to be added to the distributed ledger, can be attacked in a variety of different ways. Attacks against block creation The block creation process is designed to add transactions to the blockchain’s distributed ledger in a decentralized fashion. This is accomplished by having nodes pseudorandomly selected to create blocks and incentivizing them to behave honestly....