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From: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail.com>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net"
	<bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Announcing the Statoshi fork
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 12:32:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+s+GJC-KCsFSO-xLargBZ2y-5MFcU6=_vYePHVgpYo1qwL+0g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP243Uq8HKqJ0bedp7CPXzEc01HnwxRAuFfFEAatbAJT3A@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Mike Hearn <mike@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



  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-08 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-07 19:12 [Bitcoin-development] Announcing the Statoshi fork Jameson Lopp
2014-05-07 19:46 ` Wladimir
2014-05-07 19:57   ` Jameson Lopp
2014-05-07 20:18     ` Wladimir
2014-05-07 20:25       ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-07 20:31         ` Charlie 'Charles' Shrem
2014-05-07 21:07         ` Wladimir
2014-05-08  0:47           ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-05-08  7:45             ` Wladimir
2014-05-08 10:08               ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-08 10:32                 ` Wladimir [this message]
2014-05-07 20:28       ` Nelson Castillo
2014-05-08 11:22         ` Wladimir
2014-05-07 20:35       ` Jameson Lopp
2014-05-07 21:04         ` Charlie 'Charles' Shrem
2014-05-07 19:50 ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-07 20:00   ` Jameson Lopp
2014-05-07 20:12     ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-07 19:55 ` Pavol Rusnak

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