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Free blockchain storage – Tale of a bug in Substrate’s FRAME runtime

Writeups / By / July 20, 2020

This is the story of a simple bug in the FRAME runtime of Parity’s Substrate blockchain framework. The bug allowed attackers to do infinitely large transactions without paying any extra fees. The vulnerability was the result of a buggy implementation of fee calculation in the FRAME runtime of Substrate. By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker …

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Optimal Parity Config for Syncing an Ethereum full node quickly

DevOps / By / December 12, 2018

Syncing an Ethereum full node has become painfully slow as the size of a full node folder has increased to over 130 GB and is continually increasing. Optimizing your configuration can save you hours or even days of sync times. I had to sync a few nodes a couple of weeks back, so I started tuning …

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