Impact of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks on Blockchain

DDoS attacks pose significant threats to blockchain networks, leading to reduced transaction throughput, increased transaction confirmation times, and potential network forks. By inundating the network with malicious traffic, attackers can disrupt the functioning of nodes, leading to service unavailability. Mitigating DDoS attacks requires implementing traffic filtering, rate limiting, and intelligent load balancing mechanisms to ensure continuous network operation.