> That's more important than this paper.

Author here. Deeply honoured that you carefully analysed our work. Yes, I agree that progress on the Sybil attack would be of high impact. We are in the process of strengthening our graph theory result. After already spending 18 year on it, we're getting close to a general "Universal Trust Machine" level result.

Recent science: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S138912862... Recent thoughts: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki/The-design-of-a-trus...