Wladimir [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-05-08 📝 Original message:On Thu, May 8, 2014 at ...
📅 Original date posted:2014-05-08
📝 Original message:On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
>> In a way it looks similar to how the Bitcoin DNS seeds work, trying to
>> find good and stable nodes, although more extensive.
>
>
> Yeah, it's somewhat similar, except that Tor directory authorities are
> authenticated (the public keys are in the source code), whereas DNS seeds
> aren't. Also Bitcoin puts way more emphasis on decentralisation than Tor
> does.
Right, having authenticated 'directory authorities' hardcoded in the
source code would be out of the question for bitcoin.
Either the stats would have to be public, or private/authenticated to
parties the owner of the node configures themselves.
Wladimir
📝 Original message:On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
>> In a way it looks similar to how the Bitcoin DNS seeds work, trying to
>> find good and stable nodes, although more extensive.
>
>
> Yeah, it's somewhat similar, except that Tor directory authorities are
> authenticated (the public keys are in the source code), whereas DNS seeds
> aren't. Also Bitcoin puts way more emphasis on decentralisation than Tor
> does.
Right, having authenticated 'directory authorities' hardcoded in the
source code would be out of the question for bitcoin.
Either the stats would have to be public, or private/authenticated to
parties the owner of the node configures themselves.
Wladimir