Is there a way to identify or measure geological distribution of the delegates?
I'm starting to get the impression that a lot of the delegates are now clustering on a couple of small locations. Worst case scenario we'll have a large number of sockpuppet delegates with no actual separate infrastructure or benefit to security and robustness.
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Take for example the 10 delegates or more databunker is managing are they all on the same network connection? Nothing personal to you Data, it's just that you posted here, I'm sure there are others doing the same thing.
I agree.
We need to think about geographical location of witnesses and witness nodes, as well as the political location of witnesses and nodes.
We need to model the most likely threats to the network. Do we think they are collusion amongst witnesses, coercion of witnesses, or simply the prevention of block production through political, or other geographical issues.
Data said that his nodes were working in multitudes of countries with a backup running at his compound. He may be much more prepared for political pressure than the rest of us, but you have to ask yourself. How much political pressure would it take to take any of us down?
I believe we need as many individual witness operators as possible, in as many political environments as possible.
We also need to think about where threats are likely to come from, and how best to resist those threats. I still think a dead mans switch would be a good idea. If you do not log into a node, and submit a command within the appointed time, the node changes its public data to something along the lines of "I have been compromised. Vote me out"