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by LinuxinaBIt 678 days ago
Reticulum uses absolutely no blockchain. It uses a fairly novel routing strategy with something called announces.

Read this page to learn more about it: https://reticulum.network/manual/understanding.html

TL;DR it only flood routes packets that tell the network the location of a node; each node stores the “next hop” to get to every other node on the network. Everything else is routed along a single path determined by those “next hops.”

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What stops me from flooding the network with 10^12 of fake addresses?
The intended solution seems to be a 2% bandwidth limit for announcements and a preference for lower hop-counts to keep your flooding local.

There's a FAQ item on this: https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/wiki/Frequently-Asked...