Ah you should be aware that the BSV chain is reported to contain child porn. Not just some old non-working onion urls or whatever, but actual full on child porn due to its operators facilitating file upload and encouraging its use to bloat the chain.
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Okayyy, that's really fucked up. Thanks for the heads-up! This literally changes everything. It even makes me wonder whether it's intentional; seems after all the steps they've taken to disincentivize node operators (mostly financially), it's all pretty calculated.
Even if I don't get into legal trouble and I do have access to powerful enough hardware, I will never provide infrastructure for (and store) such materials.
What started out as a funny little 'blockchain attack' idea, actually turned dark real quick here.
I am one of those people willing to do this experiment, yes!
You have read system requirement to run BSV node[1], right? To run node which can keep up with latest block, you need 8C/16T CPU, 64GB RAM and 100Mbit internet connection. I don't know how to find cheap VPS, but on Linode[2] it costs $320/month (Linode 64 GB shared CPU) + $200/month (10 TB S3 storage, unless you use prune mode). You might as well as burn your money.
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I know; it's CSW's way of financially disincentivizing (obviously altruistic) node operators and making the blockchain more centralized. Personally, access to such hardware would be no problem for me, since I don't need to rent it. But as mentioned above, I now declare this idea as
'discarded'. Maybe we can demonstrate on another, 'centralized' blockchain what the consequences of having few nodes can be. But that's a different topic.
Do you know what's funny about this?
We could literally find 20 people in this forum who are willing to buy 7TB of HDD space to spin up BSV nodes and vote against Craig's 9 nodes. It would be great, just showing that it is
this easy to attack a not properly decentralized blockchain.
No reason to do the experiment. Someone else
caught up with you, and accomplished a 51% attack with 100 blocks deep reorg. Absolutely nothing happened, because there's absolutely no decentralization, no immutability and no integrity behind this clown show in the first place. There was no change even in
the price. BSV-ers simply don't care; it's all about what Craig tells them.
Craig's perspective is BSV's consensus mechanism.
That's amazing! I think I missed that. It's hilarious though, how the 'BSV Association' then tried to replace PoW with 'Proof of Authority' by asking node operators to reject the longest chain. I hope the attackers succeeded and got away with a good amount of BSV which they immediately market-dumped.
However, what I hoped to be able to achieve is not only show such attacks are easy when you have 9 nodes, but also to stop CSW in his endeavors of introducing massive changes into the BSV blockchain, granting him however many coins and such. Not for protecting BSV holders or anything, just to make him a little bit upset.
That would require setting up a bunch of nodes and just leaving them running without updating them with any such code changes.
But again, idea scrapped.