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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Decentralized whirlpool!
by
JiiBs
on 25/03/2024, 11:25:59 UTC
Good to see them going in that direction.

For example, is there any mechanism to protect against de anonymization by sybil attack?
I'm looking forward to see how sybil attacks will be discouraged in the case where the attacker launches (or bribes) a coordinator. At the moment, Whirlpool discourages by not allowing you to select which round to join. Round selection is random. But, this is trust-requiring to Samourai users, as far as I understand.

Hearing the term Sybil attack for a first time. At first I thought it was some agency that acts against decentralization and had to check over the web. I was first met by, “it’s a Greek girls name” lol,,, but the meaning yo crypto sums up to mean, where a user spontaneously creates false identities to pretend to be other persons on a p2p network.

My confusion though,
It’s there really much to that? Like the platform in question would always serve as escrow to whatever transacting that is been done and if that be the case, then there would be little need to worry about the other party’s fulfillment of its end to the bargain.

Or am I misunderstanding anything here.