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If we ever have a problem getting blocks, we could consider adding somethin=
g to pay to receive historical blocks but luckily that isn't a problem we h=
ave today - the available connection slots and bandwidth on the network tod=
ay appears to be more than sufficient to saturate nearly any fully-validati=
ng node=2E
On May 3, 2017 5:53:07 PM EDT, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-de=
v@lists=2Elinuxfoundation=2Eorg> wrote:
>On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 9:08 PM, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
><bitcoin-dev@lists=2Elinuxfoundation=2Eorg> wrote:
>> CONS:
>
>The primary result would be paying people to sybil attack the network=2E
>It's far cheaper to run one node behind thousands of IPs than it is to
>run many nodes=2E
>
>Suggestions like this have come up many times before=2E
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