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On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 05:11:35PM +0200, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
>=20
> > UPNP seems to work well for the reference client. What's the situation
> > there on Android?
> >
>=20
> Not sure - it could be investigated. I think UPNP is an entirely
> userspace-implementable protocol, so in theory it could be done by a
> userspace library (even libminiupnp - java is not a requirement on androi=
d)

Do find out.

> > I leave my phone plugged in and connected via wifi for most of the day;
> > lots of people do that.
> >
>=20
> I suspect you mean "I think lots of people do that". I'm not so sure. We
> could potentially run an experiment in the Android app to measure how many
> users are in a position to contribute back, but just because you have wifi
> doesn't mean you can reconfigure it using UPnP. That helps a lot in home
> networks, but at the office it doesn't help.

Also worth finding out.

> I'm wary of a ton of work being put in to achieve not very much here.
> Satoshi's original vision was always that millions of users were supported
> by 100,000 or so nodes. I don't think that's unreasonable over the long
> term.

Appeal to authority.

Stop bringing up Satoshi's "vision" - our understanding of
crypto-currencies has improved in the 4.5 years since Bitcoin was
released. Satoshi didn't even forsee pool mining, which says a lot about
his economic judgement.

> Besides, prioritisation isn't very hard. Nodes can just hand clients a
> signed timestamp which they remember. When re-connecting, the signed
> timestamp is handed back to the node and it gives priority to those with
> old timestamps. No state is required on the node side. Signing and checki=
ng
> can be passed onto the general ECDSA thread pool that works its way throu=
gh
> pending signature operations, they'd be prioritised lower than checking
> blocks/broadcasts.

Right, so you're giving priority to peers that have been around for
awhile. You've succeeded in forcing attackers to wait a bit.

A) What's the definition of a peer? What stops me from pretending to be
100 peers?

B) Given an attacker willing to wait, what's your plan?

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