From the Whitepaper:
Reliance on witnesses is what makes Byteball rooted in the real world.
Reading through the Whitepaper it seems that the devs took Bob McElrath's "Braiding Bitcoin" idea and solved the consensus problem by using trusted nodes (like Ripple) instead of an algorithm.
So it's basically something like Ripple but using a DAG instead of sequential blocks.
Kudos for starting somewhere, but this isn't a decentralized solution and is vulnerable to sybil attacks.
Hello Come-from-Beyonds sockpuppet.
Nice trolling.
To all reading except the troll:
Byteball is decentralized, trustless between users/nodes, and each user/node must trust his selection of witnesses.
This is no diffrent than trusting bitcoin miners will continue their operations and bitcoin node operators. The worst that could happen if witnesses misbehave is they are replaced.
Byteball is sybil resistant, you cant do any damage by spawning millions of wallets or fake users. You can spawn a witness but it will only loose bytes as nobody has it as its selecion. You cant even replace all the 12 witnesses with fake ones.