Andy Parkins [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-12-22 🗒️ Summary of this message: Nodes in a ...

📅 Original date posted:2011-12-22
🗒️ Summary of this message: Nodes in a network have the option to choose what work to do, and should have a way of forwarding the results of that work to other nodes. Transaction verification is the main one. However, it requires a web of trust as well as a web of connections.
📝 Original message:On 2011 December 22 Thursday, Joel Joonatan Kaartinen wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 11:52 +0000, Andy Parkins wrote:
> > Why should they have to? Joining the network as a node is very low cost
> > to the other nodes. You can't force any node not to be lazy, since
> > their option is to disconnect themselves. As to maliciousness, that is
> > defended against because when a node negative announces a transaction,
> > that transaction is going to be checked (note that there is still no
> > implicit trust) -- if a node is incorrectly negative-announcing then it
> > can justifiably be kicked.
>
> a node that is not doing any checking themselves can not reliably
> forward failed verifications without getting the blame for doing faulty
> work. Those nodes would then have the incentive not to relay the failed
> verifications. This ends up making it important to know which nodes will
> be checking transactions or not so you don't isolate yourself from other
> nodes that are also checking transactions.

Yes; I appreciate that. It's the very point I'm making. A node can choose
what work to do, and should have a way of forwarding the results of that work
to other nodes. Transaction verifification is the main one.

Once a negative-announce message exists, it wouldn't be hard to have the other
two you need as well: positive-announce and neutral-announce. At present we
have only neutral-announce. However, as the need for super nodes and
distributed verification gets bigger, having the forwarder able to offer an
opinion on the quality of a transaction seems ideal to me. Dishonesty will
get you isolated pretty quickly if you use positive-announce and negative-
announce to lie.

The problem with this is that it requires a web of trust as well as a web of
connections. The only way to gain an advantage from this classified
forwarding is if you have some way of assigning enough trust so that you can
forward a classified transaction _without_ checking it yourself. That doesn't
sound like an easy problem though.



Andy

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Dr Andy Parkins
andyparkins at gmail.com
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