📅 Original date posted:2011-08-05
🗒️ Summary of this message: The reason for the slow propagation of Bitcoin blocks could be due to the network consisting mostly of end-users with residential networks.
📝 Original message:> Could this be because the network right now consists largely of end
> users with residential type networks?
Probably.
How many connections "should" a node use? We faced this decision in
BitCoinJ recently and I asked the patch writer to reduce the number.
It seems pretty arbitrary to me - if you aren't going to relay, a
single connection should be good enough. Yes, it makes sybil easier,
but if you pick the one node randomly enough it might be ok?
> actually deployed. Wikipedia says that "some NAT routers" support it and
> that it's not an IETF standard. All routers I've actually seen in real
> life had it disabled by default.)
Hmm, I don't recall ever enabling it in my router but it's on and the
Bitcoin support works. UPnP is used by all kinds of common programs
like Skype and Xbox Live.
Mike Hearn [ARCHIVE] /
npub17t…4qgyd
2023-06-07 02:12:50
in reply to nevent1q…lrfz
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