I agree with you here, Erik. Greg's standard answer doesn’t apply to your suggestion. I think he was a bit too trigger happy because we have seen a lot of similar suggestions that have the Sybill issue he mentioned.
On Thursday, 4 May 2017 15:15:02 CEST Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > Greg > > The primary result would be paying people to sybil attack the network. > > I cannot imagine the benefit to replicating an ip address in this case, > except maybe you think that you would be more likely to be selected as a > peer? But there would be no actual advantage since download peers are > selected based on throughput and actual blocks served. -- Tom Zander Blog: https://zander.github.io Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
