Questions tagged [peers]
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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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Bitcoin core full node - Should i choose my peers or it's fine to use the hardcoded ones?
Pretty much the title, i have a full node v 0.17.1 running 12-14 hrs/day and i was wondering if is helpfull, for privacy or for whatever reason, to add peers (maybe from https://bitnodes.earn.com/...
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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
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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Altcoin clone peer connections limited to 1
I cloned an altcoin and set up a network of 7 peers.
One of the clients is connected to a pool and is mining the coin.
All the other clients are connected to the pool one and are syncing and ...
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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
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 ...
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How to make more than 1 nodes of mine connect each other?
Lets say i have 5 nodes running.
each node is on its dedicated server and is upto date. and its connected to available peers on the network.
How can i make them to connect each other and not to BAN ...
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Why connected node count have dropped since august 1st?
before 1st august i used to connect to 55+ nodes on my bitcoin-core, even if i kept the bitcoin-core running for 12 hours.
but after 1st of august, the connected nodes count is not going above 15-23
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What happens when tx is broadcasted whose input is not yet received by mempool or are unknown?
lets say, there are 2 transactions
tx1
address1 -> address2
tx2
address2 -> address3
our mempool doesnt have the tx1 yet, but i try to create a tx2 and broadcast it.
what will happen ?
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Why there is only 8 peers in bitcoind?
I set maxconnections=125 in bitcoin.conf but still has only 8 connections in nodelist. Please tell why?
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How blocks are created and broadcast?
Followings are some of my understandings about how bitcoin blockchain works, and want to confirm. Appreciate your comments and thoughts.
In the blockchain, every peer receives both transactions and ...
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Are incoming connections required for mining?
I am setting up a RPi3 Mining node for fun. I know that it will have less than 8 connections that are outgoing.
I know that if I was able to configure my network and router to allow incoming ...
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Idea on how to keep my altcoin private, make it impossible for others to mine even if they have my altcoin's source code
I've been doing freelance to create an altcoin and my client wants this new coin to be private which means only authorized users can mine and use the coin. What I've been doing so far is to make a new ...
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Negate the need for blockchain explores and full blockchain syncing for simple queries
Rather than download the full blockchain or a pruned version; would it be viable to peer-to-peer ask 'what is this block' or 'what is this tx'?
We download the full blockchain from several peers so ...
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Testnet peers list (with IP addresses)
There are some services to get the list of current known peers,
like those offered by 21.co or Blockchain.info
but I can't find anything similar for the Testnet network.
Does anybody know a Testnet ...
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Bitcore-p2p: Peer.connect does not work
I'm trying to run a simple script to connect to a Bitcoin peer, like this one:
var bitcore = require('bitcore-lib')
var p2p = require('bitcore-p2p')
var Peer = p2p.Peer;
var peer = new Peer({host: '...
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Multibit HD only sees one peer
Multibit HD is only connecting with one peer. This issue randomly started a few weeks ago. Initially, I had to keep restoring my wallet to a previous date since my balance kept reverting to ...
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Bitcoin peer list
I noticed that a company I have connections with, has an asset (ip) that appears on this bitcoin peer list; http://pastebin.com/HTPjuJBt
In laymens terms, what is a peer list, and should I be ...
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What is meant by getnetworkinfo: networks: reachable = false
What do all the reachable: false's mean under each network? My node is connecting fine to other peers both in and out, I assume via IPv4 (since I didn't configure anything else special). Is my node ...
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How do I still have connections without forwarding port 8333?
First of all, this isn't a problem I am having, I'm just curious how this works.
If you run your node with port 8333 open, you'll receive a large amount of connections after being online for a while....
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What is the difference between inbound and outbound connections?
I have port 8333 open with 8 outbound and 2 inbound connections.
Is my node transmitting and receiving transactions and blocks from both types of connections? Or does the "inbound" flag mean I am ...
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Can we make Sybil attacks virtually impossible?
I suspect that we CAN make them virtually impossible, but that we have not yet done so. We operate on the assumption that computing a private key from the public key is virtually impossible. We also ...
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How are messages exactly sent in bitcoin p2p protocol
In order to send a NetMsgType::PING message to a node pnode, we simply invoke the function pnode->PushMessage(NetMsgType::PING) in src/main.cpp
This translates into following logic in src/net.h:
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How peer discovery works after connecting to hardcoded nodes?
I am tinkering with the bitcoin source code and trying to understand the exact working of peer discovery mechanism in the testnet mode for which I have made the following changes:
Disabled the DNS ...
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Is there a difference between “In” and “Out” peer connections?
On bitcoin-qt, some peers are called "Out" and some are "In". Is there any difference besides who initiated the connection?
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Total amount of nodes and avarage active peer number
I have 2 questions:
Does anyone know where to find a reliable source for finding out a total amount of active bitcoin nodes?
How many peers does each active node have in avarage? Is there a limit to ...
