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From: Me <jimmyjack@gmail.com>
To: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Significant losses by double-spending unconfirmed transactions
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 09:06:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E724A120-7F85-488B-81CD-B1CD8EB227E3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150715155903.GC20029@savin.petertodd.org>

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?


btw I do not work for them nor have any money invested in them in case anybody asks





> On Jul 15, 2015, at 8:59 AM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 08:49:13AM -0700, Me wrote:
>>> Blockcypher's "confidence factor" model(1)
>>> under the hood - yet another one of those sybil attacking network
>>> monitoring things
>> 
>> 
>> Peter, I noticed on your twitter you have a lot of bad things to say about Blockcypher and their business model (which I might not full agree, but totally respect), can you share any evidence they perform any form of Sybil attack on the network, please. 
> 
> For Blockcypher to succesfully do what they claim to do they need to
> connect to a large % of nodes on the network; that right there is a
> sybil attack. It's an approach that uses up connection slots for the
> entire network and isn't scalable; if more than a few services were
> doing that the Bitcoin network would become significantly less reliable,
> at some point collapsing entirely.
> 
> -- 
> 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
> 0000000000000000093f699ccdb323aa638af1131249ec2e1bacbf367163807a



  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-15 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-15  3:29 [bitcoin-dev] Significant losses by double-spending unconfirmed transactions 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 [this message]
2015-07-15 16:11           ` Pieter Wuille
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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