Questions tagged [network]
This tag should be used for questions related to the Bitcoin network and communication between different nodes on the Internet.
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A more updated address clustering method?
say i have a transaction details of one address from blockchain info. is there a more updated heuristics for address clustering ? i.e. if a transaction has 2 output which address belongs to a ...
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What would happen if you tried to follow two Bitcoin blockchains from the same computer?
This will probably sound stupid but what would happen if you create an entirely new Bitcoin block chain and run it on the same computer. How does a node know which version of the Bitcoin block chain ...
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Cant inititate network handshake with my full node
I am running a custom python script to initiate network handshakes with other nodes. While testing the code I decided initiate an handshake with my own node but I am getting a timeout error.
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Can a Bitcoin node create an outgoing connection to a inbound node?
I'm trying to figure out if we can create an outgoing connection to a inbound node (a node which we are already connected to, but the remote peer has initiated the connection). I know that this does ...
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How to dissect or decode a BTC transaction?
I used a packet capture to capture the transaction of bitcoin, and I got the following:
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Do SPV nodes sync “headers-first”?
Headers-first sync is defined somewhat by BIP 130 and expanded upon with compact block relay in BIP 152. I believe this is the commit in which it was added to Bitcoin Core.
The result is that Bitcoin ...
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Is there a way for me observe network traffic of bitcoin exchange?
I was wondering if there is a way to observe a network traffic/packet of bitcoin exchange. I want to know what's in the packet when I send a bitcoin from one wallet to another.
Thanks.
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How the process “ lock a certain amount of coins into the network as their stake” achieved technically in the Proof of stake algorithm
i am trying to understand deeper the proof of stake algorithm. i think i understand the basics but i am struggling to understand how this achieved thoroughly under blockchain network and how the nodes ...
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Malicious full nodes causing denial of service attacks
To control >51% of the mining power in bitcoin is impractical due to the immense investment that will be required. Also, The Bitcoin Core client has DoS protection against malicious nodes forwarding a ...
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Send coins from bitcoind full node to lnd without fee?
I'm trying to fund my LND node, for that I put some dust on my BTC wallet address and now I want to send to my LND wallet address but when I try to send with fees "paytxfee": 0.00000000 returns an ...
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What happens when invoices get paid more than once?
Until today I thought, that lightning invoices can only be paid once. Where do the funds go when an invoice is paid more than once? Will every payment reach the destination node or can reusage be ...
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Unable to find peers when connecting through tor proxy
I have tor running as a service on my computer and start bitcoind with -proxy=127.0.0.1:9050 but it fails to find any seeds through DNS or anything during startup, and even after leaving it on for ...
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Bitcoin neighbours with getaddr type message
lately I'm dedicating myself to programming my Bitcoin client for academic purposes, and I was analyzing protocol specifications, with particular attention to the system of exchange of known network ...
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Does a Node connect to all the peers?
Does a Node connect to all the peers in the network? Or just a few?
If its just a few, how many?
If its just a few, what about if all of those nodes in the list are malicious?
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How to confirm how many peers a node has?
When a node requests one of it's neighbours for a list of it's peers, that node responds with a list of all of it's neighbours. I'm just wondering is there a way to confirm that those nodes are ...
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Creating a tunneling (wormhole) service for bitcoin wallets
Zcash recently announced a new wallet and service to connect mobile devices to a node running on a private home network using a tunneling service they are calling "wormhole" (1). Basically it is ...
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Creating a bitcoin simulation
I want to create a bitcoin simulation where I can simulate information propagation similar to that of the real bitcoin network.
I would then like to change how information propagation works in this ...
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Requesting a node's peers list
When joining the bitcoin network, you request a list of peers that a node has so that you are able to connect to those peers if you wanted to, in order to be better connected. Is there any way that ...
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When joining the bitcoin network, why aren't we connected to the most geographically closest nodes?
Is this a safety/security reason or is it just convenience?
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Is there a way to distinguish miner nodes from other nodes?
In the bitcoin network, there are many different types of nodes. One of these types are miners and in the bitcoin network, is there any way to distinguish a miner node from a non-mining node? I'm ...
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Lightning Network: Is it creating 3 transactions instead of 2?
I'm watching this Lightning Network presentation by the original authors. At 9 minutes in, he notes that all the network sees will be a transaction to the multisig address and then a transaction to ...
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How are transactions propagated through the bitcoin network? (In-depth)
I know the general gossip protocol that occurs i.e transactions are sent to neighboring nodes who then send it to their peers etc. but I was trying to find a more in-depth answer on how transactions ...
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Any privacy considerations regarding allowing inbound connections for a Tor full node?
I wanted to know if there's any privacy considerations to take into account when opening the bitcoin ports on the router for a bitcoin node.
I'm using -onlynet=onion in the bitcoin.conf file and I ...
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Is it possible to accurately map hashing power to network size?
Let's say we have a network with n nodes in it. Is it possible, when the hashing power of the network is calculated after a proof-of-work, to accurately estimate n with an algorithm taking the ...
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Blockchain endpoint working
I wanna clear this thing that how blocks are retrieved and created in from the nodes using an end point. The end point is basically centralized and have nothing to do with network if i'm not wrong. Is ...
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Transaction Relay and trickling in Bitcoin
If a node has 100 connections to other nodes and receives a new transaction using a getData request, it sends an inv message to it's 100 connecting peers correct?
Does it also send the inv message to ...
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Possible better peer-to-peer protocols for Bitcoin?
As we know, bitcoin uses flooding in order to propagate blocks and transactions across all the nodes in the network. As it was launched in 2009, it's been almost 10 years since it's launch and I was ...
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Would bitcoin core work on a big endian system? Or even a system where C++'s `int` is not 32-bit?
Looking at the source code of bitcoin core, the serialization part, I see that there's no serialization abstraction layer that accounts for a possible different endianness or different binary layouts ...
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How to get multiple connections to the same node
I'm playing around with connecting my node to another one of my nodes to see how many incoming connections I can handle.
Whenever I add node A from node B with bitcoin-cli addnode 1.1.1.1 add after ...
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Networking in cryptocurrency
I am learning and trying to implement my own cryptocurrency and I am thinking about how could I achieve the peer to peer connections.
I read that bitcoin is using DNS seeds for discovering users.
In ...
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Is it true that only one message can be sent at a time in Bitcoin Core?
I looked into Bitcoin Core client code, and it seems that there is a lock that allows only one thread to send data (Block, TX, etc.) at a given time point. If this is true, it means that transactions ...
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Improvements that could be made to how bitcoin propagates its transactions and blocks?
As of 2018 what are the known improvements that could be made to how bitcoin propagates its transactions and blocks?
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Is Bitcoin network an overlay application network?
Is Bitcoin network constructed with just Layers 1-4 of the OSI model? Or it's an overlay application network?
Can someone please explain about structure of Bitcoin network?
Thank you
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Possibility of detecting MAC address spoofing in Bitcoin network?
The paper that has been published here: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3282283 proposes a consensus algorithm based on distributed voting process in which it claims that it would be possible to ...
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How do block explorers determine propagation through nodes/P2P protocol?
On several Bitcoin blockchain explorers, I have seen unconfirmed transactions given a dedicated "propagation" value that tells a user how much of the Bitcoin network has become aware of this ...
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how do bitcoin nodes know about the full network
partitions sometimes occur in a distributed network; when this happens, a node can only communicate to a subset of other nodes in the network and may use a different chain as the main chain; since ...
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When an IP address in *new* table is overwritten?
I'm reading the address management of Bitcoin core implementation. There is one thing I couldn't understand is in which condition an IP address in the new table of a node is overwritten?
In ...
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How do mining pools connect to the Bitcoin network and miners connect to pool?
I couldn't find the answer anywhere so I start a thread.
How do mining pools connect to the Bitcoin network to propagate transactions and blocks? Do they run their own full node? If yes, how many of ...
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What is the network topology used at the physical layer of the Bitcoin network?
I want to know about the performance of the Bitcoin Network under various network topology and for which it performs the best. Also what is the current topology being used?
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How is bitcoind “shy” when exchanging `version` packets?
This is more of a technical/programming question.
I am referring to this line of code: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/be992701b018f256db6d64786624be4cb60d8975/src/net_processing.cpp#L1699
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addnode in bitcoin.conf doesn't work (Regtest mode)
I'm trying to make to nodes on the same computer communicate.
I set up two bitcoin folder with two bitcoin.conf files.
bitcoin.conf in the second node is the following:
rpcuser=bitcoinrpc
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How a web-service like bitnode.earn can know each node's blockchain height?
How a web-service like bitnode.earn can know each node's blockchain height?
We can get some information of each node in bitcoin network in this web-site:
https://bitnodes.earn.com/nodes/
And, it is ...
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Can we estimate how many node has the Bitcoin network? [duplicate]
Is it possible to estimate the amount of nodes (hosts) are connected to the Bitcoin network in a given time?
Note: Here node means host.
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Are sockets kept open when connections are made?
The bitcoin protocol says that any given node is connected to at least 8 other nodes. Does that mean that when a client connects to a node and learns about new peers... will the client keep the socket ...
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Is bitcoin running over a structured or unstructured overlay?
How nodes are being admitted to the system? Does each node have a sequential unique address?
In other words, are bitcoin nodes considered structured or unstructured?
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Slow sync running Bitcon full node on Mac Mini OSX
It is Jul 2018, I need help after several attempts to sync a full node running on a Mac Mini.
I have tried several times and Bitcoin-qt starts pretty well for the initial sync, downloading with ...
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Can't specify rpcport for testnet
Was there a recent change where it is no longer possible to specify rpcport?
I noticed these two warnings:
Warning: Config setting for -addnode only applied on test network when in [test] section.
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Bitcoin CPFP transaction with zero fee
tx1 - I want to first create tx with 0 fee
On the next I am going to add tx1 as input and add necessary fees into it
the issue is tx1 gets rejected by full node why is that cant I broadcast a 0 ...
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Is a peer connection maintained for the life of the node, or is it recreated on every request?
Lets assume we have 2 bitcoin nodes, A and B. A is already up, and B is now coming up. B lists A as a peer node and attempts to establish a connection. A accepts, a handshake is completed and they ...
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Obtaining Lightning network graph data
I was wondering if it is possible for me to obtain data about the Lightning network mainnet, particularly the nodes and the edges (channels) in the network. I know that the graph is visualized in ...
