Below are 2 examples why a systematic risk analysis needs to be used.
The current situation is that you have developers making hyperbolic,
demonizing statements that users are "spammers" and engaged in Sybil
"attacks." Characterizing these activities as spam and Sybil attacks is
not a systematic analysis, it is closer to the process used at the Salem
Witch trials.
If this process of demonetization is to take its natural course then
these statements are "developer attacks" from a developer system that
lacks proper incentives and is rife with conflicts of interest.
Russ
... 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.
...
> Spammers out there are being very disrepectful of my fullnode resources
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