HIP 66: Trust Score & Denylist Convenience

[edakturk14]

HIP 66: Trust Score & Denylist Convenience

• Author(s): @H-Baguette
• Start Date: 2022-06-10
• Category: Technical
• Original HIP PR: HIP draft - Trust Score and Denylist Convenience #430
• Tracking Issue: this
• Status: In Discussion

Summary

There is no single way to determine whether a hotspot is spoofing. This HIP therefore looks at several types of data that are typically looked at when looking for spoofers and combines them into a score, the Trust Score, which is designed to tell how likely a hotspot is to be spoofing, in order for them to be manually added to the denylist later.

The HIP doesn't make any automatic additions to the denylist, nor does it invalidate witnesses that it deems to be spoofing ; it only attributes a Trust Score to each hotspot.

Additionally, the HIP provides convenient ways for hotspot owners to report hotspots to the denylist as well as prove their own integrity, directly in-app.

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[wolfenhawke]

The success criteria should not just be the number of hotspots added to the deny list, but the number of valid spoofers that have been added. So, a method to validate the results is also required. Otherwise the algorithm is self accrediting.

[johnson1872022]

Checking whether an IP is from China. As most cheaters are located in China, it would make sense to preemptively penalize all hotspots in this country. However, this comes with the obvious downside that all honest miners in China would also be penalized.

I don't think targeting a country is a good idea.
This goes against the principle of decentralization and makes Helium a centralized project.
China's cryptocurrency holdings are still the second largest in the world despite policy regulation. Helium doesn't respect the Chinese market, there won't be a big rise in HNT price, and there will even be more falls. Once the Chinese market relaxes regulations on cryptocurrencies in the later stage, can Helium still win the Chinese market? Please don't take Denylist only for the Chinese market. China does not produce HNT. No matter how high your output is, what's the point? HNT will become $1 after a long time.