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adastra22
11 months ago
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Show HN: Timelock.dev – Send a secret into the fut...
What the person you're replying to is talking about is a Sybil attack. You pick random nodes, yes, but what if the list of nodes to pick randomly from is 99.5% the attacker? This is a real world attack that has been used against Tor, for example.
pjerem
11 months ago
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Thank you, I understand !
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