Catesby on Nostr: I do understand what you’re saying, and I totally get your concern. You have to ...
I do understand what you’re saying, and I totally get your concern. You have to understand what p2p really is under the hood to not be afraid of it. The person in the middle is just another peer with equal power to change content as every other peer: zero. In BitTorrent, which inspired bitcoin, files are uploaded and downloaded. When it first came out, most home internet connections were spotty and when you tried to download huge files, if it didn’t just lose the connection and fail completely, the file would get corrupted and be useless. BitTorrent introduced a method to disseminate huge files, chunk by chunk, in a way that would only succeed if the resultant file matched a hash of the original, meaning it was the DEFINITELY THE SAME EXACT FILE. This was great for downloading OSs and software that you needed a positively perfect copy of, then later our internet connections got better and we started checking SHA256 hashes to make sure our downloads were good. But BitTorrent still does this job perfectly, and bitcoin’s p2p network is similar in that it IS the protection. It is what makes it possible, and bitcoin would have never grown so huge without it. These peers are your friends. The network doesn’t allow ‘rogue’ peers.
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