I assume many of you heard about it, and if not you haven't acquainted yourself with Fomo3D, please do. It's an interesting "game" that has many social, behavioural, technical, and eventually crypto-related implications.
SECBIT Labs issued a pretty interesting analysis of how an intelligent individual won ~10,500 ETH at first round. The analysis exposes that most of the hack is based on targeting other bots by hacking the Ethereum mining algorithm, and specifically how TXs are included in a block. The analysis is here: https://medium.com/coinmonks/how-the-winner-got-fomo3d-prize-a-detailed-explanation-b30a69b7813f
I'm not sure such a game can be created over Stellar (any thoughts?), but I'm more curious whether someone here can summarise some of the basic differences between the Stellar algorithms and Etherium concerning the game, and how they affect the ability to "hack" it. For example, the fees/gas payment, who receives it, and the way TXs are included in a ledger.
I also believe it might pertain to these two open issues:
- Update "surge pricing" to be more fair #75 https://github.com/stellar/stellar-protocol/issues/75
and possibly
- Make the fee specified in a transaction a max amount the user will pay https://github.com/stellar/stellar-protocol/issues/133
