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