Amiti Uttarwar and the P2P network - Episode 15

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.