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Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 12:32:59 +0200
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From: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail.com>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Announcing the Statoshi fork
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On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:
>> In a way it looks similar to how the Bitcoin DNS seeds work, trying to
>> find good and stable nodes, although more extensive.
>
>
> Yeah, it's somewhat similar, except that Tor directory authorities are
> authenticated (the public keys are in the source code), whereas DNS seeds
> aren't. Also Bitcoin puts way more emphasis on decentralisation than Tor
> does.

Right, having authenticated 'directory authorities' hardcoded in the
source code would be out of the question for bitcoin.

Either the stats would have to be public, or private/authenticated to
parties the owner of the node configures themselves.

Wladimir