[bitcoin-dev] Full node "tip" function

[Matt Corallo]

If we ever have a problem getting blocks, we could consider adding something to pay to receive historical blocks but luckily that isn't a problem we have today - the available connection slots and bandwidth on the network today appears to be more than sufficient to saturate nearly any fully-validating node.

On May 3, 2017 5:53:07 PM EDT, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 9:08 PM, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
><bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> CONS:
>
>The primary result would be paying people to sybil attack the network.
>It's far cheaper to run one node behind thousands of IPs than it is to
>run many nodes.
>
>Suggestions like this have come up many times before.
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