From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>
To: Me <jimmyjack@gmail•com>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Significant losses by double-spending unconfirmed transactions
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 12:11:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPg+sBgb6fGT524U4xi_GDrOio2uKMe4Z798699CknvtaBdcqw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E724A120-7F85-488B-81CD-B1CD8EB227E3@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Me via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Have you talk to them? If not, how can you be sure they don’t run large
> number of standard nodes and actually make the network stronger? Personally
> I never bring claims like this if I just assume. A lot of people in the
> community really trust you, do you realize you potentially hurt them for no
> reason?
>
Running normal full nodes only provides extra service to nodes
synchronizing and lightweight clients. It does not "make the network
stronger" in the sense that it does not reduce the trust the participants
need to have in each other.
It's such a misconception that running many nodes somehow helps. It's much
better that you run and control one or a few full nodes which you actually
use to validate your transactions, than to run 1000s of nodes in third
party datacenters. The latter only looks more decentralized.
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Pieter
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-15 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-15 3:29 simongreen
2015-07-15 14:35 ` Tom Harding
2015-07-15 15:18 ` Peter Todd
2015-07-15 15:49 ` Me
2015-07-15 15:53 ` Bastiaan van den Berg
2015-07-15 15:59 ` Peter Todd
2015-07-15 16:06 ` Me
2015-07-15 16:11 ` Pieter Wuille [this message]
2015-07-15 16:41 ` Me
2015-07-15 16:12 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-07-15 18:25 ` Matthieu Riou
2015-07-15 19:32 ` Peter Todd
2015-07-15 19:57 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-07-16 0:08 ` Matthieu Riou
2015-07-16 5:18 ` odinn
2015-07-17 11:59 ` Peter Todd
2015-07-17 12:56 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-07-15 17:01 ` Adrian Macneil
2015-07-16 14:30 ` Arne Brutschy
2015-07-16 14:50 ` Me
2015-07-16 15:33 ` Greg Schvey
2015-07-18 11:43 ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-18 15:09 ` Peter Todd
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