With the recent DDOS attack on specifically the bitcoin classic nodes, I wonder how much of a weak spot such an attack is on Monero.
Monero currently has +/- 150 nodes. So significantly less in numbers. Would such an attack be feasible? And what would happen if such an attack would last for some time?
I can as well imagine a scenario that most nodes are under attack, except the potential malicious one of the attacker.
Monero currently has +/- 150 nodes. So significantly less in numbers. Would such an attack be feasible? And what would happen if such an attack would last for some time?
I can as well imagine a scenario that most nodes are under attack, except the potential malicious one of the attacker.
Let's try to get high-availability, high-performance Monero nodes spread as widely as possible.
Ideally, we'd have one or two in every data center (and behind every anti-ddos specialist) on the planet. Not that AWS is anything great, but the concept/execution here is pretty slick: https://classic-cloud.net/
But how about first filling in the largest holes in global/political/demographic coverage, as according to https://monerohash.com/nodes-distribution.html?
We could start 'adopting' countries and putting up nodes in their capitals.
I propose prioritizing Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Egypt, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Kuwait, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, and Vietnam because their local nodes-per-citizen ratio is zero and for several international bandwidth is at a premium.
The list is partially based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_population
This is a good idea. I think once Monero gets a better following then perhaps a bounty could be put up for setting up some basic node guidelines and maybe 6 initial nodes around the world could be set up. Strict guidelines for how they should be set up and updated should be established by the core dev team. Question is who is going to pay for it. Perhaps once more transaction fees are generated on the network then a small portion of that could be used to set up, establish and maintain some nodes around the world. These nodes would be overseen by perhaps some of the devs or appointed trusted folks involved with Monero development. Keep in mind I'm just thinking as i type so some of these ideas might not work. I think BTC should have used a small portion of the transaction fees to establish better node integrity. If they had they might not be having the issues they have now with slow the transactions. I realize Monero is very private currency but if a trusted committee oversaw these nodes it might build better network transaction backbone over the long haul. Just a thought.
Don't want to get to centralized but Monero has shown to be community supported and some small thing like nodes are something to seriously consider in the future especially if BTC users start using XMR for privacy. After all using some funds to keep a basic network up 24/7 isn't encroaching on anyone's privacy and some of the developers out there might could use a well known established trusted node for their development projects.
