From: Tom Zander <tomz@freedommail•ch>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org,
Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Full node "tip" function
Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 16:57:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <67911104.PTmAhAhWMc@strawberry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJowKgKpiqeHAFn+tbZAqH9Oojhm8K+8EcJz9kMoU+qgK0PBHA@mail.gmail.com>
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.
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Tom Zander
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-04 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-03 21:08 Erik Aronesty
2017-05-03 21:43 ` Ben Thompson
2017-05-04 10:38 ` Tomas
2017-05-04 13:37 ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-05-04 13:47 ` Erik Aronesty
2017-05-04 14:31 ` Aymeric Vitte
2017-05-03 21:53 ` Gregory Maxwell
2017-05-03 22:03 ` Matt Corallo
2017-05-04 13:15 ` Erik Aronesty
2017-05-04 14:57 ` Tom Zander [this message]
2017-05-03 23:21 ` Luke Dashjr
[not found] ` <9335E0E0-F9D6-41AD-9FF9-5CDF2B1AF1F7@gmail.com>
2017-05-04 19:28 ` Erik Aronesty
2017-05-08 21:00 ` Sergio Demian Lerner
2017-05-08 21:44 ` Natanael
2017-05-08 22:15 ` Sergio Demian Lerner
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