10:43 <Jmabsd> What is Stellar's sybil resistance actually?

11:34 <tribaal> Jmabsd: nodes create what is essentially a web of trust between themselves (as in, the human running the node decides which node to trust). So unless attackers manage to fool a majority of already-existing validators into updating their trustees to include them, no chance.

11:34 <tribaal> it's similar to BGP routing in that sense. Validators peer explicitely.

11:37 <Jmabsd> tribaal: interesting - what about "user database", is it local to a node only,

11:38 <Jmabsd> or are others supposed to store the same users as other nodes have in their db:s

11:38 <tribaal> what do you mean, user database?

11:41 <tribaal> stellar has no such thing as a user database - it's a blockchain. There's a list of transactions between public keys on the blockchain (I'm simplifying things a little, but that's the jist of it)