The Swiss organization, headed by ex-Kraken COO Michael Grønager and previous Mycelium engineer Jan Møller, made more than 250 "false" bitcoin hubs to reap data on the whereabouts of exchanges. The firm claims these hubs have now been closed down.
Three Bitcoin Center designers, Wladimir van der Laan, Dwindle Todd and Gregory Maxwell, say Chainalysis' activities add up to an alleged Sybil assault on the bitcoin system, something Chief Grønager denies.
The assault, named after dissociative personality issue sufferer Shirley Ardell Bricklayer, happens when an individual makes numerous fake personalities to pick up impact in a distributed system.
As van der Laan told CoinDesk:
"Non-practical hubs are infused in the system, for this situation to siphon off data. They claim to be full hubs, however don't store squares nor give them when asked. This leaves different hubs that associate with them holding up, and that can result in lulls."
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