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anyone else confirm that running with asmap drops knots node counts? looks like they are performing a Sybil attack and the numbers are much closer to 2-3%

going to try asmap today and see if I notice a change

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๐–‹๐–Ž๐–†๐–™๐–‰๐–Š๐–“๐–Ž๐–Š๐–— (ยฏ`โ—•โ€ฟโ—•ยดยฏ) 4mo ago

๐Ÿ˜‚ desperate

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jb55 4mo ago

what do you mean? asmap is ideal for detecting these kinds of attacks. if they are mostly nodes spawned by the same entity it would be good to know that. its not *that* hard to spawn thousands of nodes on the network.

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๐–‹๐–Ž๐–†๐–™๐–‰๐–Š๐–“๐–Ž๐–Š๐–— (ยฏ`โ—•โ€ฟโ—•ยดยฏ) 4mo ago

Knots is a fork of Core. It has everything Core has. Not more or less susceptible to Sybil attack as Core

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jb55 4mo ago

I think you misunderstood what the post was about, that is not what I'm saying

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Jack D 4mo ago

Core is very susceptible to Sybil attacks. Check out eclipse attacks. Asmap feature was added to try and mitigate, but it's not perfect.

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SatsAndSports 4mo ago

I'm not sure you know what a Sybil attack is

The number of Core nodes has not increased recently, hence there is no pro-Core Sybil attack

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SatsAndSports 4mo ago

Actually, now I realise the first line of my note just above was too insulting and ill-informed

There are enough assholes in this debate, without me making it worse ๐Ÿ˜œ.

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Jack D 4mo ago

Yes, im sure im the misinformed one. Please define Sybil attack for me so that I can be better.

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Jack D 4mo ago

Desperate? Sybil is the main criticism for counting nodes. Node counts are meaningless because of it. Only hashrate matters. It's the whole point of PoW.