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From: Matt Corallo <lf-lists@mattcorallo.com>
To: Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph.org>,
	Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
	Erik Aronesty <erik@q32.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Full node "tip" function
Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 22:03:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AC8BC70A-D20E-4480-8414-49E2AF159423@mattcorallo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgQYhi3oqncrNU+26E4JoHHfQMJAyTGtJY-ZD6J9O7NPsQ@mail.gmail.com>

If we ever have a problem getting blocks, we could consider adding something to pay to receive historical blocks but luckily that isn't a problem we have today - the available connection slots and bandwidth on the network today appears to be more than sufficient to saturate nearly any fully-validating node.

On May 3, 2017 5:53:07 PM EDT, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 9:08 PM, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
><bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> CONS:
>
>The primary result would be paying people to sybil attack the network.
>It's far cheaper to run one node behind thousands of IPs than it is to
>run many nodes.
>
>Suggestions like this have come up many times before.
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-03 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-03 21:08 [bitcoin-dev] Full node "tip" function 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 [this message]
2017-05-04 13:15   ` Erik Aronesty
2017-05-04 14:57     ` Tom Zander
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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