Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Criminal complaints against "network disruption as a service" startups

From: Justus Ranvier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:38:07 -0500

On 03/13/2015 05:24 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Well they don't set NODE_NETWORK, so they don't claim to be
> providing network services. But then I guess the Chainalysis nodes
> could easily just clear that bit flag too.

If a peer claims to provide network services, and does not do so while
consuming another node's resources, that might be considered exceeding
authorized access.

bitcoind should probably have more fine-grained control over how it
allocates connection resources between peers vs clients.