Florent Daigni?re (NextGen$) wrote: > People would fake storing the data and would be given credit... > As they already do on BT, Emule and others ;)
I agree - incentives to contribute bandwidth and storage are a good idea, but they *must* be based on verifiable evidence, otherwise you just create an incentive to lie. Replies to CHK requests can be verified by the requester and by intermediate nodes, but I can't see a way to verify replies to insert requests - a selfish node could just drop the request and forge a response a couple of seconds later to make it look like the request succeeded. It might be dangerous to create an incentive mechanism based purely on CHK requests, because that would give selfish nodes an incentive to devote all their bandwidth to CHK requests at the expense of unverifiable inserts. Cheers, Michael
