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Amiti Uttarwar and the P2P network - Episode 15

The Chaincode Podcast

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Adder Relay - What's Most Interesting to You?

What's really captivated my interest right now has been adder relay. Adder man is the address manager, which is keeping track of all these ip addresses that you're getting from the network. The only way i can figure out if there's a legitimate bit coin node there is by trying to connect to this ip address and then disconnecting. So we have some boot strapping mechanisms. Namely, one of the biggest ones is d an s seats. They will return information about active notes on the network. And with that information, i can go and try to connect to a bunch of those notes.

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