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.