Erik Aronesty [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2017-05-03 📝 Original message:> But as you've observed, ...

📅 Original date posted:2017-05-03
📝 Original message:> But as you've observed, the failure probabilities are rather high,
> especially if an active attacker targets nodes carrying less commonly
> available blocks.

Wouldn't the solution be for nodes to use whatever mechanism an attacker
uses to determine less commonly available blocks and choose to store a
random percentage of them as well as their deterministic random set?

IE X blocks end of chain (spv bootstrap), Y% deterministic random set, Z%
patch/fill set to deter attacks
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