Timeline for How do hard forks avoid peering with each other?
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| May 11, 2022 at 22:30 | vote | accept | natevw | ||
| May 11, 2022 at 22:29 | comment | added | natevw | Thanks for finding my old question and offering such a well-rounded answer after all these years! Makes sense that any of these mechanisms could keep the forks mostly separate, and especially when working all in combination. | |
| May 10, 2022 at 15:27 | history | edited | RedGrittyBrick | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 10, 2022 at 15:17 | comment | added | RedGrittyBrick | @Pieter: Thanks, I have added that information to the answer. | |
| May 10, 2022 at 15:16 | history | edited | RedGrittyBrick | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 10, 2022 at 12:57 | comment | added | Pieter Wuille | @RedGrittyBrick The shunning is correct. Relaying an invalid block is a protocol violation (in most cases; there are exceptions), and (in Bitcoin Core) will cause the peer to be considered misbehaving. Misbehaving peers are eventually put on a "discouraged" list, which means their connection slot will be dropped and replaced by another when a non-discouraged IP connects. Bitcoin Core further has a mechanism to temporarily actively seek out extra connections when it appears none of its peers have a recent valid block. | |
| May 10, 2022 at 12:10 | history | edited | RedGrittyBrick | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 10, 2022 at 12:03 | comment | added | RedGrittyBrick | @Michael, Thanks, I'll add that to my answer. | |
| May 10, 2022 at 11:00 | comment | added | Michael Folkson | The P2P handshake may also be different (en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_documentation#version). It depends really whether the hard fork was trying to disrupt Bitcoin as much as possible or it was happy to "play nice" and have a different port, P2P handshake etc | |
| May 10, 2022 at 9:56 | history | edited | RedGrittyBrick | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 10, 2022 at 9:41 | history | answered | RedGrittyBrick | CC BY-SA 4.0 |