Pieter Wuille & Amiti Uttarwar and the P2P network - Episode 16
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) - Erlay (paper, BIP) (20:55) - 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) - ASMAP (39:00) Thanks to Caralie for the sound engineering.