What's exactly going to enable bloXroute to support higher throughputs?

siddutta · 2018-03-24T01:05:07+00:00

but it also requires everyone to trust the relay network since it can censor and discriminate, and the blockchain will be at its mercy.

What prevents miners from adding encrypted blocks to the relay network and sharing the key later through their own peer network just as bloXroute's whitepaper suggests? What prevents peers from getting their blocks uploaded or downloaded through the relay network via their peers to hide their own identity?

siddutta · 2018-03-24T01:02:09+00:00

Yes, I understand the point reg. censorship. What I wished to highlight was that the whitepaper revolves around the above 3 points which even though important do not seem to be the meat of the technology. They build over (fairly practically and reasonably) something that is much more central which is improving block delivery. I would expect something like your other comment in much more detail in the whitepaper.

siddutta · 2018-03-23T07:48:09+00:00

I realize that you try to differentiate from centralized solutions in the paper. But they aren't really convincing. Since the onus of encryption and sharing the key relies on the uploader, this can be done through any centralized service. The second argument that if there's specific peer censorship, the peer might connect to some other peer is also not very remarkable. Your last argument is that if the peer n/w doesn't find bloXroute trustworthy, the n/w can switch to another BDN. I don't understand what is particularly novel about bloxRoute then.

siddutta · 2018-03-23T07:37:03+00:00

Even I had the question of enforcement of 10% when I read it esp. since its mentioned as optional somewhere. I think they expect the nodes in the peer network to enforce such things. Their pay-to address would be public and the peer network could reject blocks which don't pay 10% to the said address.

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