On Tuesday 05 May 2020 10:17:37 Antoine Riard via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Trust-minimization of Bitcoin security model has always relied first and
> above on running a full-node. This current paradigm may be shifted by LN
> where fast, affordable, confidential, censorship-resistant payment
On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:01 PM Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 May 2020 10:17:37 Antoine Riard via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > Trust-minimization of Bitcoin security model has always relied first and
> > above on runn
I do see the consensus capture argument by miners but in reality isn't this
attack scenario have a lot of assumptions on topology an deployment ?
For such attack to succeed you need miners nodes to be connected to clients
to feed directly the invalid headers and if these ones are connect
Hi Antoine,
Consensus capture by miners isn't the only concern here. Consensus capture
by any subset of users whose interests diverge from the overall consensus
is equally damaging. The scenario I can imagine here is that the more light
clients outpace full nodes, the more the costs of sec
On 05/05/2020 16:16, Lloyd Fournier via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:01 PM Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 05 May 2020 10:17:37 Antoine Riard via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>>> Trust-minimization
What I'm thinking more is if the costs of security are being too much
externalized from the light clients onto full nodes, nodes operators are
just going to stop servicing light clients `peercfilters=false`. The
backbone p2p network is going to be fine. But the massive LN light clients
ne
m the light clients onto full nodes, nodes operators are
> just going to stop servicing light clients `peercfilters=false`. The
> backbone p2p network is going to be fine. But the massive LN light clients
> network built on top is going to rely on centralized services for its chain
> acce
lure a
majority of SPV clients they may not be able to stir economic nodes. SPV
clients users will now have an incentive to cancel their hijacked history
to stay on the most economic meaningful chain. And it's already assumed,
that if you run a bitcoin business or LN routing node, you do want t
