Quote from: eduffield on July 28, 2015, 11:37:02 PM

Quote from: iCEBREAKER on July 28, 2015, 10:44:32 PM

I've never seen any of this...

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op_null: kanzure: in this case, it's fairly obvious that darkcoin built a flawed system where every "masternode" must have an open socket for people to connect to. the realities of a distributed system means there's a financial incentive for people to attack other nodes. which is obviously undesirable.

DOSing other nodes will never pay more than it costs. You have to take down a node for 24 hours to make it miss a payment, that means you would need to dos 1500 nodes for 24 hours to double your revenue from $1 a day, to $2 a day. It doesn't make any sense.

If it ever becomes a problem I've outlined a way to remove the publicly open ports and use a routing system between nodes. It was first described here: https://dashtalk.org/threads/development-update-oct-1-2014.2561/#post-23222

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gmaxwell
As far as not around, they've been invited here. But they were only interested in paying me so they could attach my name to their project, not in actual technical discussions. In any case, I also prefer "omg guess what these idiots did" at least be directed to figuring out how to avoid the same mistakes elsewhere.

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(they'd also used my name all over their stuff intially and I had to threaten to go around bad mouthing them to get it removed.)

1: No one on the team has ever offered to pay gmaxwell money, nor extended an invitation to work with him. We merely referenced his work in our paper, before showing how we improved the strategy and made it more anonymous. I'm not sure why he said that, it's simply not true.

2: No one has ever invited me to their channel, but I'll take this as an invitation and start hanging out in there. Maybe that will help, it seems no one except a few people really understand what we're doing and how it works, including them.

Perhaps it's a simple misunderstanding about who gmax is referring to as "they" or perhaps someone is lying. I'm dying to find out. Cool

(*courtesy pings gmax*)