📅 Original date posted:2011-06-13
🗒️ Summary of this message: The Bitcoin community is discussing the adoption of BitTorrent tracker bootstrapping as a simpler alternative to the current IRC bootstrapping mechanism.
📝 Original message:Hi all.
Just wanted to carry the discussion from the Forum over to the dev-list.
We have quite a few bootstrapping mechanisms, starting with the overly
complex (IMHO) IRC bootstrapping, which is often suspected as bot-activity.
Then we have a few hardcoded nodes and some fallback nodes. I was wondering
why we didn't adopt BitTorrent tracker bootstrapping until now? It's
basically all it does. Given a hash (SHA1 hash of the genesis bloc would be
nice ^^) it gives you a list of other nodes with the same hash.
Given that there are quite a few open trackers (accepting and tracking any
hash you throw at them) we could just decide to use 2-3 of those to
bootstrap.
The downside would be that they return bencoded data, which has to be
interpreted first, but it's easier than implementing the IRC stuff, I think.
Any comments?
Regards,
Chris
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2023-06-07 01:54:15
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