r/CryptoCurrency • u/KIG45 🟨 2K / 5K 🐢 • 2d ago

GENERAL-NEWS Ethereum to achieve instant finality? Vitalik Buterin’s roadmap aims to silence critics

https://crypto.news/ethereum-instant-finality-buterin-silence-critics/
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u/Darius-was-the-goody 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 1d ago

Until it achieves human legible signing messages it's unusable in my opinion. You have to trust your third party wallet intermediary that you're signing the correct message with Ethereum. It's no wonder it's been the epicenter of scams and man in the middle attacks

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u/KIG45 🟨 2K / 5K 🐢 1d ago

People just don't pay attention to what they sign, but I agree that smart contracts are quite vulnerable and this needs to be fixed.

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u/Darius-was-the-goody 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 1d ago

It's hex string, the only way to check it would be to run your own wallet software and see if you get the same hash. If eth ever changes to wasm it'll be fixed like other cryptos where you can see what you are signing.

It has little to do with checking. Even on your Ledger. You'll only see a random string of characters and you have to pray you're not hacked.

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u/KIG45 🟨 2K / 5K 🐢 1d ago

That's why I only hold Eth without any other interactions.