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. >_______________________________________________ >bitcoin-dev mailing list >bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org >https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
