Questions tagged [peers]
should be used for questions related to the peers of the bitcoin network
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Do peers advertise their chain work?
If yes, is this how a node decides that the peer has the best chain for headers-first download?
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How to understand the first reply of a node
I have send my version message to a bitcoin node and the hexdump of his answer was this:
https://pastebin.com/QBNaeS0g
Maybe this is a network related question but I want to know the version used by ...
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Testnet3 app will not sync to peers
I was just trying to connect testnet3 to my own testnet node through the "trusted peer" and "skip regular peers" settings, but it seems that in this way it cannot connect to a ...
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Increase maximum number of outgoing connections for full node
If incoming connections are disabled, Max full-relay connections are 8: src/net.h#L64 and Max block-relay-only connections are 2: src/net.h#L68
How are these decided and how can a user change these ...
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Why does bitcoin core appear to freeze while connecting to peers on startup?
When I startup bitcoin-qt (version 0.20.1.0) on linux, at the bottom of the app is the mesage "Connecting to peers... 4 years and 10 weeks behind". It appears that things are just frozen, no ...
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Score value of my node is not rising
I'm running Bitcoin Core 0.20.1 in Debian Buster.
I run the daemon behind Tor network.
My current settings are:
/etc/tor/torrc
SOCKSPort 9005
ControlPort 9501
HiddenServiceDir/var/lib/tor/bitcoin-...
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How does bitcoin core establish a peer to peer network
I've tried to look for an answer to this online and haven't found any. My question is: how does bitcoin establish a peer to peer network. Establishing a centralized network with a server in the middle ...
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What happens to transactions in the mempool when their parent transaction expires?
I was just reading the Coin Metrics Newsletter #53, and it included a section about the recent mempool congestion. After mentioning transactions that got evicted due to the network's queue of ...
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Can full node with only IPv4 connect to another full node with only IPv6?
As far as I know, IPv4 and IPv6 are two different protocols and direct connection between an IPv4 and IPv6 cannot be established.
If I run a full node with only IPv4, can my node connect to another ...
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How does having a large mempool and allowing a greater transaction ancestry set change the interaction with your peers?
Bitcoin Core by default allows up to 300 MiB of mempool data, and restricts unconfirmed transaction trees to an ancestry set of at most 25 transactions and 101 kvB of transaction data. Since these are ...
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Number of bitcoind peers drops precipitously every 30 days or so
I run bitcoind headless on a linux box with maxconnections=256 and port 8333 open on the router. Using Bitcoin Node Manager I monitor node status occasionally. Peer count of course starts at 8 and ...
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How to achieve fast mempool synchronization at startup?
I just started my 'occasional' full-node and I am watching the size of the mempool grow after full block synchronization - watch -n 3 'bitcoin-cli getrawmempool true |jq "length"' - it has around 4000 ...
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How to determine the peer/node that created a transaction?
You're running your node and you receive a transaction from a peer, how do you determine if that peer created the transaction or if it is simply relaying the transaction. In other words, can you map ...
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Transaction propagation criteria vs mempool inclusion cirteria
Do Bitcoin nodes propagate every transaction or only transactions that meet certain criteria? For instance, a transaction with a fee of 0 won't necessarily get included into a block and it might even ...
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bitcoin back-end blockchain storage
bitcoin uses blockchain
so blockchain is peer to peer,
every peer stores the data
so I wonder where does the data of all the bitcoins is stored?
who is peer in case of bitcoin?
so that peer gets ...
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The result of bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo command
When I type bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo in shell, conspicuous property of the result are addr and addrlocal addrbind.
14.xx is my address and others are peer's address.
I know that Bitcoin client can do ...
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Bitcoin network resources requirement
Supposing we are alone, could it be possible to run the whole bitcoin network and full capacity of it (maximum transaction per second by different peer) on a low end computer, and how can someone ...
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Why not connect to all (huge amount of) nodes?
If you mine, a good network propagation time is important in case of mining-forks. I read that bitcoin only connects to 8 nodes. I would connect to many nodes as I can support to minimize my block ...
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Can I connect to a node as read-only?
In my Electrum wallet I can open the Network Window and view Nodes I'm connected to. Here's an example: electrum4101870.fullhealth.net. I can also find public nodes at https://bitnodes.earn.com/nodes/...
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P2P getHeaders message - how to get block locator hashes
I'm trying to build my own block explorer
So that I need to use p2p bitcoin protocol. For that I'm using btcd (golang) lib.
According to bitcoin book I have to send version message (and receive ...
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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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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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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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Bitcoin core full node - Should I choose my peers or it's fine to use the hardcoded ones?
I have a full node v 0.17.1 running 12-14 hrs/day and I was wondering if it's helpful, for privacy or for whatever reason, to add peers (maybe from https://bitnodes.earn.com/nodes/leaderboard/) with ...
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Why are some of my peers rejecting this CSV transaction?
The CSV-redeeming TX I broadcast: https://www.blocktrail.com/tBTC/tx/807d464fff227ce98cfb5f1292069e2793e99f21b0539a1729cc460af32add77
The locktime was set for ten minutes, and the redeeming tx (...
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It's October 2018. ./bitcoin-qt -reindex-chainstate takes forever. Is there a way to speed this up?
Current version: Bitcoin Core 0.16.3
I think I have a corrupted blockchain download as my VM box was shut down in the middle of syncing. Which is why I'm doing a -reindex-chainstate
I have the ...
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How to set up a gateway node?
I have two nodes running in my local machine. one public facing and another connected ONLY to the public facing node. I ensure they are whitelisted and in different ports. the nodes connect just fine, ...
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Setting up node, no connection when announce ip address to peers [closed]
I want to announce my host name when running node. When I set nxt.myAddress=hostname or IPaddress, there are no connection to peers. But when I keep it empty everything is fine.
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Why doesn’t Bitcoin use UDP to do Blockpropagation?
Bitcoin uses TCP for P2P but why is UDP not used? Modern day internet has relatively low packet loss rate so UDP is reliable. Even if some packets are dropped the peers can always request for the ...
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structure of communicating with bitcoin DNSs to get list of nodes
I want to communicate with bitcoin DNSs to get list of bitcoin nodes.
for now I want some example and structure of messages between I and bitcoin DNS.
I found two DNS names:
dnsseed.bluematt.me
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Unwanted peers connecting to Altcoin
I am building an altcoin using the litecoin source code.
I have removed all of the Emplace Seed calls in chainparams.cpp for DNS seeding, changed my default node communication port to port 421 and ...
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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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Bitcoin core: connect to specific peers from file
I want to launch Bitcoin core connecting to a specific list of peers. I can do this using connect:
bitcoind -connect=<IP1> -connect=<IP2>
Is there a way I can put the peers I want to ...
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On a low level, how are long chains kept secret and later broadcast during 51% attacks?
I've been reading about the vulnerabilities of PoW crypto, and there's a part of it that I don't understand.
Suppose I wanted to stage a 51% attack on Bitcoin (not really feasible, but bear with me). ...
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How to run multiple node in same machine?
I have created an altcoin base on litecoin source code. I want to test it in multiple node to test peers of each node weather each node can connect to each other. So I try to run "mycoind" in multiple ...
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How Do Peers Choose Which Peer To Trust?
So the way I understand how the blockchain works is that each new block uses the previous block's hash, which means if my block[100].hash != someone_elses_block[100].hash that means that either I ...
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Does Bitcoin limit the number of parallel connections from the same IP?
Is there a measure in place to prevent an adversary from connecting to a Bitcoin node many times in parallel, thus saturating its open connection slots?
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Can cryptocurrencies never be fully decentralized because finding peers is centralized?
When initially running a cryptocurrency client, it needs to fetch peers from a centralized source. If an attacker gains control of all of a client's default peers servers, they would be able to ...
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Sending RPC-JSON Commands to Bitcoin Peers
Is it possible to send some commands to Bitcoin Peers? for example decoderawtransaction command?
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bitcoin core node cannot route to peers
I'm trying to sync a new full node in the cloud, however it's syncing a lot slower than I am used to: I am roughly at 70,000 blocks after about 12 hours.
It doesn't seem to be slow IO, iotop shows ...
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Bitcoin ABC stucked on connect to peer [closed]
So i have a testnet bitcoin cash that i just put txindex=1 (because a api requires this) and it stuck on block 1155875 and I restart the core and even follow the step in this thread: https://www....
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Under what circumstances does bitcoin-qt ban a peer? [duplicate]
Under What Circumstances Will Bitcoin-qt Ban A Peer?
In my bitcoin-qt wallet, I am noticing that often there are a lot of banned peers.
Sometimes I have as many as 10 peers banned within the wallet, ...
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How bitcoin is peer to peer?
Bitcoin's whitepaper says that "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution"...
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Finding IP addresses of all bitcoin miners
I understand that the transactions don't have any IP info in them but I am curious to know if it is possible to enumerate over list of all the IP addresses involved in mining?
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How to reset node information in Bitcoin Core?
I think I've just put the wrong node IPs through console and I forgot all the IPs.
I would like to reset all the node information to the initial.
Should I just delete peers.dat?
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Can malicious peer hack freshly installed bitcoin-core node
I'm considering two scenarios of hacking freshly installed bitcoin core node.
Does freshly installed bitcoin-core node have genesis block included in the installation?
This fresh node contacts some ...
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Should port forwarding for running bitcoin be done also on the ISP's router?
Follow up question on What is the NAT traversal technique used by bitcoin.
The network architecture described here https://superuser.com/questions/1109859/2-routers-connected-in-series-and-port-...
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What is the NAT traversal technique used by bitcoin
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=30947.msg23736281#msg23736281 says that
incoming port can be opened or
UPnP enabled.
Is this incoming port opened on the NAT device so that all incoming ...
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How many peers does bitcoind try to connect to?
Let's say a new node try to connect to the network.
Since it doesn't have any node in its peers.dat it makes a request to the DNS seeder and receives a list of addresses.
Now, how many of these ...
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What is the minimum amount of network messaging needed to get the latest block hash from a node?
Reference: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_documentation#inv
I want to be able to write the simplest possible script that is able to contact a Bitcoin full node (given it's IP and port) and get ...
