Vitalik: Ethereum network should respond to 51% attacks in a more automated way

Odaily News Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin advocated for a push to better prepare the Ethereum network for a 51% attack during his keynote at the ETHCC in Brussels. He believes that an automated response to such attacks should be prepared, which would take pressure off the social layer. A potential response to such an attack would be for honest validators to move to a fork of the chain, and current plans would rely heavily on social consensus, with community members working together to agree on a fork. However, Buterin believes it would be better if the network was better prepared for such a response. He said that such a response would be largely automated and planned in advance.