Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Helps Daniel Larimer Code, Says EOS "Not Actually Safe"

The EOS development team is currently working at high speed ahead of the scheduled mainnet launch on the 2nd of June when EOS will migrate from the Ethereum network onto its own blockchain over the course of 40 days.

The dev team has had unexpected assistance from Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, who has taken to the EOS GitHub to critique the project.

In a series of comments on a loss of consensus issue posted by EOS CTO Dan Larimer, Buterin expressed concerns regarding the safety of a solution presented by Larimer, critiquing Larimer's now-closed resolution that is intended to ensure that EOS's Delegated Proof of Stake 3.0 protocol will not fall out of consensus.

"In general, it's not possible to achieve BFT safety on a block without at least two messages from most nodes that directly or indirectly reference that block; this algo tries to do it in one round and it's likely impossible to actually do that safely. If you want an intuitive and good way of doing this, I recommend just using the algorithm in our Casper FFG paper".

"Larimer has this concept called DPOS where he says that in DPOS you only need about 100 nodes in the network The problem is that if you have 100 nodes the system is much more centralized. You can denial of service them. Because you have to vote for them, the nodes that win are going to be the nodes that everyone knows. So it is much easier to attack the people running the nodes. ISPs can shut them down, companies can shut them down, governments can shut it down fairly easily."

The benefits offered by the EOS DPOS protocol are obvious.

As EOS "Supernodes" are voted in by the EOS community, EOS architecture is arguably resistant to corruption.

Ethereum hashing power is more centralized than the proposed EOS distribution.

EOS Development Powers Ahead. Regardless of Buterin's position on the EOS development process EOS appears to be moving ahead smoothly, with Block.

One - the organization behind the EOS project - recently capturing the Chief Financial Officer of the largest bank in Australia as the COO of the organization.