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If they try many new relays will appear overnight
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

they are already attacking

only access control and paid relays will ultimately survive this

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wertyyryyr 1y ago

What about onion relays?

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

they are even more vulnerable to DoS attacks

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

crack open an onion browser and go to any darkweb site and tell me that within the first few inches of the top of the screen you see messages about backups and lists of backups

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wertyyryyr 1y ago

How is it different from bitcoin nodes?

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

nostr is not a consensus, to take down bitcoin you have to attack over 20,000 nodes some of them on very strong security and between many of them are VPNs as backup that can't be attacked publicly

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wertyyryyr 1y ago

How many relays are there?

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

probably around 1000 by now, maybe 2000

but only about 20 of them carry about 90% of the traffic

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wertyyryyr 1y ago

I see, very easy to hurt badly.