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miguelfreitas / twister-core

twister core / daemon
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Zero-cost attack type posibility #445

Open ghost opened 3 years ago

ghost commented 3 years ago

As I understand, everyone can create a lot of new accounts per second for a free to make critical queue of the blocks.

The network may go fall with popularity growth. Is protection mechanism available?

miguelfreitas commented 3 years ago

There is a POW required for every new account which it is meant, primarily, to prevent peers from hijacking the username for a registration which has just been posted on the network. So there is some cost involved for creating a lot of new accounts but squatting is definitely possible.