Sent with [1]ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Saturday, June 6, 2020 10:17 AM, Karl wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 7:29 PM other.arkitech <[2]other.arkitech@protonmail.com> wrote: > so your system doesn't have a bloated chain, which is nice. The 'consensus' is handled by voting...based one IP address one vote. But how robust is relying on IP addresses at the end of the day? > IPv4 provides unique features no other protocol has. address space is saturated (scarce) and addresses are not cheap. It is a a nice tool for Sybil control OA, when you say this people start disregarding what you say because it is false. Any software developer can get thousands of IP addresses by altering a piece of pirated software to include something new of their own design and sharing it in a venue where it hasn't been shared on before. There are many many other ways and people _think_ of them, _use_ them, are _observed_ using them, and things spread and grow. what? any developer geting thousands of public IPv4 addresses by modifying software? Nop. That's not true. (Or I haven't understood well what you say) Relying on IPv4 scarcity is great because it makes it a lot harder to compromise that aspect of the network for the _average_ person. And your software is small so nobody is going to try to compromise it for any serious reason. If it is a valuable idea, then once it is open source people will discuss and fix security vulnerabilites, but you should be aware that they exist so you can relate around them. Yes, I hope a public review of the code will catch a few impl glitches, hopefully not any affecting the design References 1. https://protonmail.com/ 2. mailto:other.arkitech@protonmail.com