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Jameson Lopp
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Just published: first study of Bitcoin's resilience to submarine cable failures, using 11 years of P2P network data & 68 cable fault events. Random cable failures are mostly harmless, but targeted attacks on 5 hosting providers could take out 95% of clearnet nodes. Authors recommend using tor to increase network robustness.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14372
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waxwing · 1w
Interesting. On tor, isn't it already the case that the (large?) majority of reachable nodes are over tor? I don't follow these stats regularly.
Time Chain · 1w
Isn't this the exact opposite position of Ivan Pustogarov from 2015? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5NZvsyAfw&pp=ygUWQml0Y29pbiBvdmVyIHRvciByaXNrcw%3D%3D
Punch · 1w
yes - the back bone bottle necks are still an issue…
Mot₿C Podcast · 1w
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HelpfulGiraffe · 1w
Aren’t most nodes using Tor anyway? Like 80% or something ?