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RE: The Great Node War of 2017 Has Begun
I have a question. There has been much talk that many of the new BIP148 nodes coming online in the last few days has been fake, meaning that they would shut off before August 1st. What would be the point of this? Is it to create a false sense of security among the UASF supporters so they will be caught red handed, or is it a completely different reason?
There are not really any "fake" nodes but there sure can be a lot of nodes signaling for BIP148 that won't follow through. Yeah this is for 'fluffing the numbers' to make UASF more appealing. Sybil attack on bitcoin.
There very well could be many "fake" nodes. It's very easy to spoof a node which is doing nothing more than relay and signaling (no validation, storage etc.). The reason you would do this is to be able to run lots of them at low computer resource cost.
Exactly, hence my (probably bad) use of the quotes. It is very cheap to spoof nodes, validating or not. This can easily be seen with the recent explosion of UASF nodes.