Pieter Wuille & Amiti Uttarwar and the P2P network - Episode 16
Description
P2P experts Pieter and Amiti chat about the P2P network.
In this episode they cover:
- AddrRelay high-level goals and constraints (1:15 )
- Very different than the goals of blocks and transactions
- Marginal fee rate (4:35 )
- Should we consider different transport layers? (5:40 )
- FIBRE Episode with Matt Corallo (7:40 )
- The introduction of Addrman in 2012, PR #787 (8:55 )
- What existed before AddrMan and the evolution of DoS resistance.
- Eclipse Attack paper (14:55 )
- Sybil attack
- Addrman and eclipse attacks wiki page
- Anchors connections - PR #17428
- Connection exhaustion issue (19:50 )
- AddrRelay (23:15 )
- Limiting addr black holes - PR #21528
- Rate limiting on address gossip in 22.0
- Leaky bucket rate limiter (27:00 )
- Address Spam (29:20 )
- Estimating the Node Degree of Public Peers and Detecting Sybil Peers Based on Address Messages in the Bitcoin P2P Network by Matthias Grundmann (31:35 )
- Coinscope paper (31:45 )
- TxProbe (32:00 )
- Separate network stack (37:20 )
- Fingerprint attacks (37:15 )
Thanks to Caralie for the sound engineering.





