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The posts are echoed across the network. You know where you got the post, you don’t know whether that post was created by that specific IP. Because you could ha
by rolleiflex 8y ago
The posts are echoed across the network. You know where you got the post, you don’t know whether that post was created by that specific IP. Because you could have gotten the same post from all other nodes in the network as well.
Delivery IP is not the creation IP.
- devwastaken 8y agoThe IP by definition of a P2P network must be the creation IP at some point. IP's delivering the content are liable for what they spread. Using client IP's to distribute data like a proxy only shifts the burden onto the clients themselves. These are all problems that should be gone over in detail on Aethers site, and should have been the main problem to tackle in its protocol.