The Chaincode Podcast

Amiti Uttarwar and the P2P network - Episode 15

Oct 18, 2021

41:08

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What Is an Eclipse Attack?

02:20

Relay Relay to Reduce Privacy

02:39

Peertipeer Network

05:39

Introduction

4min

How Do You Think About Designing Pt?

2min

How to Get to the Nuggets of Wisdom That Are the Shiniest?

2min

Peertipeer Network

6min

Is There an Aspect of Grad Ability?

2min

What Is an Eclipse Attack?

2min

Is There a Satellite That Can Solve This?

2min

Bitcoin Messages: Addresses, Transactions and Blocks

4min

Adder Relay - What's Most Interesting to You?

3min

10.

Adder Man

3min

11.

Doing the Dance, Piers, Is It a Coind Note?

2min

12.

How to Make an Address Notification?

4min

13.

Relay Relay to Reduce Privacy

3min

14.

Atermanas, What's Your F Thing You've Learned?

3min

Amiti returns to the Chaincode office to discuss all things p2p.

We discuss:

Why Amiti works on P2P (1:50)
A framework for p2p design (4:25)
How do we systemize Bitcoin Core knowledge? (6:20)
Searchable #bitcoin-core IRC logs (8:35)
Forward compatibility and upgradability (15:00)
Partition resisitence (16:10)
Eclipse Attacks (17:00)
Altnet (20:40)
Messages sent across the wire (20:55)
AddrRelay and AddrMan (24:35)
Bootstrapping, DNS seeds and address announcements (25:25)
- DoS issues (27:35)
- Address Manager (29:00)
- New table and tried table (30:00)
The Bitcoin network “dance” (31:25)
Transaction download on Bitcoin’s p2p network comic (32:25)
Addresses and proof of work (32:45)
Inbound and outbound connections (34:00)
Block relay only connections and full connections (35:35)

Thanks to Caralie for the sound engineering.

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