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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 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.
Mon Nov 16 01:15:10 UTC 2015 <adlai> testingthisstuff: also fyi, even the tor developers admit to the ease (~$1M) with which a large-scale sybil attack can be mounted against the network
Tue Aug 25 01:56:01 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> also hanbot has it : idempotence IS fundamental to bitcoin. but unlike shit like sybil attack, or pgp, which were scarcely used or thought about before we came around,
Tue Aug 25 01:36:51 UTC 2015 <mike_c> I'm sticking by it. Once you know what a sybil attack is, this is a good venue to learn why what you know isn't quite right.
Tue Aug 25 01:35:38 UTC 2015 <mike_c> Adlai: my point wasn't that we're a bunch of geniuses, more that there are better venues to learn something in depth like what is a sybil attack.
Tue Aug 25 01:00:48 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> 'd' - 'what is meant by a sybil attack?'
Thu Mar 26 00:29:36 UTC 2015 <mike_c> mircea_popescu: maybe not. could be a much dumber reason. "It's all one node just with 600 addresses. This is what happens when you fucking pay people to sybil attack the network."
Tue Mar 17 19:12:36 UTC 2015 <Adlai> dev behind popular open-source-closed-dev spv wallet is also behind a sybil attack to correlate transactions with jurisdictions... so that's why local trader is so cheap!
Sat Jan 17 03:06:52 UTC 2015 <thestringpuller> how does that prevent democracy? (a sybil attack)?
Fri Oct 24 03:31:21 UTC 2014 <assbot> 16 results for 'sybil attack' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=sybil+attack
Fri Oct 24 03:31:20 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> !s sybil attack
Thu Sep 11 14:36:54 UTC 2014 <kolinko> what I meant is - if you have a system of 15 parties, each one of them signing messages with their own gpg keys, that can be quite secure against the sybil attack. the attacker would have to steal keys of 8 independent parties.
Thu Sep 11 14:31:48 UTC 2014 <kolinko> well, sybil attack is really only a problem in systems that rely on anonymous parties
Thu Aug 28 21:22:31 UTC 2014 <BingoBoingo> ;;google site:trilema.com sybil attack
Thu Aug 28 21:20:52 UTC 2014 <thestringpuller> perhaps the sybil attack has already begun...
Sun Jun 22 17:04:57 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> which is a degenerate form taken by sybil attack in the degenerate wot that escrow is
Fri Apr 18 21:30:26 UTC 2014 <artifexd> I have not. A sybil attack is something that I thought I understood.
Fri Apr 18 21:29:54 UTC 2014 <thestringpuller> artifexd: have you looked at the wiki article yet? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack