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Comment by jboydyhacker | Hacker News Reader

The term for this is public markets is "front running".

Sandwich attack is more than just "front running". It is both "front running" and "back running" combined.

"Sandwich attack" is the attacker marketing to de-emphasize that they are frontrunning. Unless it applies to sandwiching within the same block.

> Unless it applies to sandwiching within the same block.

Yes, that's what it means.

    TX 0: attacker
    TX 1: victim
    TX 2: attacker