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Sun Oct 16 23:52:46 UTC 2016 <funkenstein_> "In the case of emergent consensus sybil nodes fail to have an impact because the attacker cannot magnify his or her economic footprint in the global Bitcoin ecosystem."
Sun Oct 09 11:37:51 UTC 2016 <adlai> by "sybil" here i just mean multiple scripts run by the same entity
Sun Oct 09 11:37:15 UTC 2016 <kakobrekla> in case of sybil i get that the join will also fail ?
Sun Oct 09 11:24:24 UTC 2016 <kakobrekla> how do you recover from sybil?
Sun Oct 09 11:21:17 UTC 2016 <adlai> but there are fewer counterparties at larger amounts, so you have a higher chance of falling prey to a sybil attack
Mon Mar 28 19:19:01 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> but i ~can~ show that sybil net would have easily achieved the result he attributes to miner cartel.
Wed Mar 23 18:06:48 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> whether or not you credit the chinese miners, the sybil net, or the devil, whoever,
Mon Mar 14 18:52:37 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> there is a network, consisting, apparently, mostly of sybil.
Mon Mar 14 18:01:40 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> the number is simply to ensure that folks connecting at random, in public toilets, end up with a thick layer of sybil between them and the statistically probable genuine non-gangrenous flesh somewhere far away.
Mon Mar 14 18:00:57 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> sybil attacks work not because there are many sybils, but because they ~act in concert~
Tue Mar 08 04:43:23 UTC 2016 <ben_vulpes> near as i can tell, mircea_popescu went to pop a mining cartel and only caught a sybil.
Mon Mar 07 23:31:22 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform even so, i don't think banning sybil reduces to "unable to talk to white devils".
Mon Mar 07 23:27:58 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> sybil octopus can get between victim and miners as a whole. and yes, this is enabled by the concentration of hash power in a shithole kingdom.
Mon Mar 07 23:27:13 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> at any rate i am broadly unconvinced that network sybil octopus needs any kind of miners other than a small share of standard hashrate.
Mon Mar 07 23:11:15 UTC 2016 <davout> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-03-2016#1425817 <<< the "sybil testing" part is not documented in the qntra piece or did I miss it?
Mon Mar 07 23:11:15 UTC 2016 <assbot> Logged on 07-03-2016 23:07:12; mircea_popescu: but, generally speaking, sybil testing on purported bitcoin nodes are a good idea, especially if carried out in secret and uncoordinatedly.
Mon Mar 07 23:07:12 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but, generally speaking, sybil testing on purported bitcoin nodes are a good idea, especially if carried out in secret and uncoordinatedly.
Wed Feb 24 18:54:42 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> http://proofofindividuality.tk << 'anti-sybil token' >> link leads to linkfarm/malware.
Mon Jan 25 21:32:24 UTC 2016 <thestringpuller> https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/42n7r0/how_to_sybil_attack_bitcoinclassicconsiderit_with/ << LOL. The Toomim's are getting hit with Sybil attacks now.
Thu Jan 14 23:13:58 UTC 2016 <adlai> "can read source and figure out wtf it does and why" is almost as sybil-resistent as PoW