> Regarding Sybil, nodes define their own trust relationships, so membership is open but not automatic. Thanks for clarifying! So you're expecting people to

> Regarding Sybil, nodes define their own trust relationships, so membership is open but not automatic. Thanks for clarifying! So you're expecting people to - manually add peers to be able to use the network. - manually monitor the said peers for if they do malicious transactions, and manually ban them if yes. Right? How is this supposed to work considering that: - most users won't care about manually adding peers. They'll just add EVERYONE who offers to be added so they can be done with it and use the system. - most users probably won't even understand what a malicious transaction is in the first place. - the few who do will for sure not have the time to monitor a network which does dozens or in the future even thousands of transactions per second. This seems just humanly impossible, there's by no means sufficient human time available to manually monitor a P2P network's content if the said content is super boring and complex. If it were a distributed social network you could expect people to e.g. manually flag spam because using a social network implies reading the posts contained in it. But manually reviewing money which strangers send to each other is boring as hell, who will do this?