Questions related to how Bitcoin finds other peers to communicate with.
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How do Bitcoin clients find each other?
What protocols or algorithms are Bitcoin clients using in order to find their peers? I learnt that BitTorrent clients may rely on central computers called trackers. Do Bitcoin clients need any kind of central servers or nodes in order to operate?
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How do bitcoin nodes initially find peers?
In all materials related to bitcoin, the people talk about the p2p bitcoin network.
OK, but there should be a central server that connects the peers to each one.
Like the torrent sites. The torrents are p2p but before you can start talking with the…
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How does bitcoin find peers?
I've seen a few questions about this already and they talk in generalities. I'm talking about specifics. If I start the bitcoin client from scratch, where in the source code does it actually add nodes.
http://bitcoin.sipa.be/seeds.txt seems to be a…
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How long on average would it take to discover all other nodes in Bitcoin network and connect to them? Are there technical obstacles to this?
I am wondering how long on average would it take for a node to discover all other nodes in Bitcoin network and connect to them? Are there technical obstacles to this?
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The only way to connect to peers is through a DGRAM unix socket?
I'm running an experimental setup. I have Ubuntu on my desktop computer with a USB hub connected and a 1TB ssd sata drive mounted to it at /mnt/d1
I'm using a second docker instance
dockerd -H unix:///var/run/docker1.sock -p /var/run/docker1.pid…
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