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From: Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph.org>
To: Erik Aronesty <erik@q32.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Full node "tip" function
Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 21:53:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgQYhi3oqncrNU+26E4JoHHfQMJAyTGtJY-ZD6J9O7NPsQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJowKg+snAUjbCFkTybNqiJCy=d_M3s5k376y1B=rVqD8WCOXA@mail.gmail.com>

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.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-03 21:53 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 [this message]
2017-05-03 22:03   ` Matt Corallo
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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