What is Nostr?
Tom Harding [ARCHIVE] /
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2023-06-07 15:41:13
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Tom Harding [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-06-29 📝 Original message:On 6/29/2015 5:51 PM, ...

📅 Original date posted:2015-06-29
📝 Original message:On 6/29/2015 5:51 PM, Natanael wrote:
> What you ask to see implemented will trivially fall to a sybil attack.
> It isn't securable. It is running on the honor system exclusively. It
> will be attacked, it will fail, losses will be had, the attackers will
> walk away with embarrassingly large sums.

Oh please. Checking that a node does relay something is not much
different than banning it for relaying garbage.

It just happens to require that you have two nodes and coordinate them
somehow. I didn't offer a complete design, don't claim magical
properties, and certainly didn't mean to imply that nodes passing a test
could be trusted (as you suggest with your "accountable parties").
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