What’s Reorg Attack in Smart Contracts?

Learn what’s reorganization attack in very simple terms

Sabit
Auditor Brainpower
Published in
3 min readAug 30, 2023

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What’s Reorg Attack in Smart Contracts?
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Here’s what reorg means in smart contract.

Imagine miners mined two blocks at the same time. It happens.

Remember, there is some time interval between blocks. Bitcoin blockchain takes 10 minutes to create a new block. Ethereum takes around 14 seconds.

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