Building an openly federated P2P system and have to make a tradeoff between security/safety and performance? You probably want the former
@stevedekorte any open P2P system is inherently federated, either explicitly or implicitly
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@bascule e.g. Jabber is federated and Bitmessage is not -
@stevedekorte I'm pretty sure an active MitM can selectively block Bitmessage messages. Seems kinda broken -
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@stevedekorte disproportionate amount of system resources controlled by individuals or small groups
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@bascule I guess we have different definitions for that word. What I mean is that all nodes are equal and effectively run the same code. -
@stevedekorte that's the ideal, but in practice you wind up with control by different groups. Bitcoin mining and LizardNSA are good examples -
@bascule In Bitcoin anyone can verify the whole chain and do mining. In Jabber, gchat isn't just another node.
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