Sybil attacks [1] came out about a decade before the Red Balloons paper [2] or the DARPA Challenge itself [3]. It is proven in [1] that CA is necessary for a Sybil-proof system, which made people to talk about Sybil resistance eg [4] - all before Bitcoin or the DARPA challenge.
Unless I’m categorically missing something, Claims like network centralization is much less likely in a Sybil-proof system, is just plain wrong and confusing, to say the least, if discussed “formally” and “mathematically”.
Unless I’m categorically missing something, Claims like network centralization is much less likely in a Sybil-proof system, is just plain wrong and confusing, to say the least, if discussed “formally” and “mathematically”.
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-syb...
[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1111.2626.pdf
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Network_Challenge?wprov=...
[4] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-85230-8_...