🔖 Title: Bootstrapping via BitTorrent trackers
🏷️ Categories: Bitcoin-development
👥 Authors:
• Christian Decker ( Christian Decker [ARCHIVE] (npub1wtx…tuyn) )
• Jeff Garzik ( Jeff Garzik [ARCHIVE] (npub1kf0…3f58) )
• Gavin ( Gavin [ARCHIVE] (npub1fvd…d8pr) )
• Vladimir Marchenko ( Vladimir Marchenko [ARCHIVE] (npub1yad…362l) )
🗒️ Conversation Summary: The Bitcoin community is discussing the adoption of BitTorrent tracker bootstrapping as an alternative to the current IRC bootstrapping mechanism. Concerns were raised about potential vulnerabilities and Sybil attacks on DHTs. Using HTTP trackers for bootstrapping Bitcoin clients has advantages over IRC and DNS Seeds, including better load balancing and no virus/botnet behavior. DNS bootstrapping can be made more robust by hosting seeds on services like Zerigo and small VPS, and using namecoin's TLDs to avoid centralization. A proposal was made to improve DNS bootstrapping for Bitcoin by creating an RPC that returns a random selection of fresh P2P node addresses.
📅 Messages Date: 2011-06-13
✉️ Message Count: 10
📚 Total Characters in Messages: 15876
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2023-06-06 11:10:38
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2023-06-06 11:10:38Event JSON
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