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Is it true you get priority in terms of receiving and sending txns based on stake in the gossip network

Dec 8, 2022

Ok so under this attack scenario, nodes with high stake would be prioritized by relays during broadcast to ensure they receive important messages first. This makes sense. I am trying to get the full picture of how the mitigation works during a sustained attack. As long as relays don’t have an upper…

Is it true you get priority in terms of receiving and sending txns based on stake in the gossip network

Dec 7, 2022

Hi fabrice thank you for the answer, this is super interesting and I’d like to find out more about this mechanism. Do you have any more infos about how this works to prevent a DoS attack? First of all, what is the attack scenario and second, how is such an attack mitigated exactly with this mechanism?