Why Nostr? What is Njump?
2023-06-07 15:21:45
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Bjørn Øivind Bjørnsen [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-05-19 📝 Original message:On 19/05/14 14:15, Mike ...

📅 Original date posted:2014-05-19
📝 Original message:On 19/05/14 14:15, Mike Hearn wrote:
> As an interested party not intimately familiar with the bitcoin codebase
> who also spent some time setting up a node a while ago, I would like to
> add one thing to the above list - network rate limiting.
>
>
> The problem is that this is easier said than done. Bitcoin Core won't
> notice a remote peer is working but slow and switch to a faster one, and
> even if it did, it'd just mean throttling your connection would cause
> all remote nodes to give up and hit the other unthrottled peers even more.
>

Does this mean that you can currently actively hurt the network by
adding a node with a very slow upstream / downstream? If so, what is the
recommended minimum amount of bandwidth you should allocate for a node?
I've already throttled mine with QoS based on the script in the contrib/
folder.

Bjørn Øivind


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