Tom Zander [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2017-05-04 📝 Original message:I agree with you here, ...
📅 Original date posted:2017-05-04
📝 Original message:I agree with you here, Erik. Greg's standard answer doesn’t apply to your
suggestion.
I think he was a bit too trigger happy because we have seen a lot of similar
suggestions that have the Sybill issue he mentioned.
On Thursday, 4 May 2017 15:15:02 CEST Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > Greg
> > The primary result would be paying people to sybil attack the network.
>
> I cannot imagine the benefit to replicating an ip address in this case,
> except maybe you think that you would be more likely to be selected as a
> peer? But there would be no actual advantage since download peers are
> selected based on throughput and actual blocks served.
--
Tom Zander
Blog: https://zander.github.io
Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel
📝 Original message:I agree with you here, Erik. Greg's standard answer doesn’t apply to your
suggestion.
I think he was a bit too trigger happy because we have seen a lot of similar
suggestions that have the Sybill issue he mentioned.
On Thursday, 4 May 2017 15:15:02 CEST Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > Greg
> > The primary result would be paying people to sybil attack the network.
>
> I cannot imagine the benefit to replicating an ip address in this case,
> except maybe you think that you would be more likely to be selected as a
> peer? But there would be no actual advantage since download peers are
> selected based on throughput and actual blocks served.
--
Tom Zander
Blog: https://zander.github.io
Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel