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Have you talk to them? If not, how can you be sure they don=E2=80=99t =
run large number of standard nodes and actually make the network =
stronger? Personally I never bring claims like this if I just assume. A =
lot of people in the community really trust you, do you realize you =
potentially hurt them for no reason?
btw I do not work for them nor have any money invested in them in case =
anybody asks
> On Jul 15, 2015, at 8:59 AM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
>=20
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 08:49:13AM -0700, Me wrote:
>>> Blockcypher's "confidence factor" model(1)
>>> under the hood - yet another one of those sybil attacking network
>>> monitoring things
>>=20
>>=20
>> Peter, I noticed on your twitter you have a lot of bad things to say =
about Blockcypher and their business model (which I might not full =
agree, but totally respect), can you share any evidence they perform any =
form of Sybil attack on the network, please.=20
>=20
> For Blockcypher to succesfully do what they claim to do 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.
>=20
> --=20
> 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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