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Yes, that seems a possible attack. You can store stuff and pass the regular audits using "Proof-Of-Storage", yet refuse to upload bits when finally asked. Hard
by tribler 8y ago
Yes, that seems a possible attack. You can store stuff and pass the regular audits using "Proof-Of-Storage", yet refuse to upload bits when finally asked.
Hard to protect systems from irrational attacks like that (we know from building a similar system). They are quite transparant about their "unsolved-problems": https://github.com/filecoin-project/specs/issues/63 https://github.com/filecoin-project/specs/issues/63
- rickycook 8y agosee my reply to the parent; there’s a retrieval market too, which could help that issue
- dlubarov 8y agoWhy do you call that behavior irrational? Seems like it would save some bandwidth costs, as the parent suggests.
- wmf 8y agoAFAIK nodes get paid for serving data and they can set the price to be higher than their bandwidth costs, so refusing to serve data is refusing to make money.