Author: Gavin Andresen 2011-12-17 19:06:56
Published on: 2011-12-17T19:06:56+00:00
The discussion around using distributed hash tables (DHTs) for transactions took place on the Bitcointalk forum and there were concerns about the security of such a scheme from Sybil attacks. Gavin Andresen, who participated in the discussion, expressed concern about adding protocol messages for lightweight clients that could potentially make it easier to carry out denial-of-service attacks on full nodes. He also speculated whether full nodes may eventually refuse requests from lightweight nodes, which could present a tragedy-of-the-commons problem.
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