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What is the prior work or inspiration for the new/tried table design?
Were the new and tried tables included in bitcoin from the beginning or added at a later date?
new/tried table were introduced in #787. Counter measure 6 in the paper suggested more buckets and was ...
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What can an attacker do if they compromise a DNS seeder?
DNS seeders exist in order to bootstrap new nodes to the network. Nodes maintain a database of IP addresses for other nodes that they can connect to which they build by requesting IP addresses of ...
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