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because those 100 nodes opened their inbound port.
So lets say there are no more nodes with inbound port open, what happens then?
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then every node is limited to those 8 peers near by, even that the whole network is like 100k nodes.
Now ask yourself: what happen if you seed blocks from your node only to 8 peers, and you cannot get new blocks from others that are not in your network/area ? It means some nodes will not have the whole blockchain correctly seeding it. Quite a mess, right?
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but if even one of the tor/i2p nodes also accepts connections over ipv4/6, then the tor/12p nodes would still see the wider network through connection to that node - the config can allow any combination of connections to be active
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Do tor and i2p work only in my network/area?
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is more about your latency
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i2p is better than tor in that regard.
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it's not only 8(connected to 18 rn) as you say and not limited by my area.
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let me know when you can show me 100 or even more peers downloading blocks from your node, without opening the port 8333.
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first you wrote personal nodes have no incoming connections, then you say max 8 is possible now if not 100 it's not ok. Makes no sense to me. Then I have seen yet a real world scenario where a onlynet tor and i2p node cannot sync the timechain.
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I said personal nodes are limited to max 8-10 peers. Is also written in Bitcoin documentation
read here: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/8109/how-does-one-attain-1-000-connections-like-blockchain-info/8140#8140
Read more about Bitcoin P2P networking here: https://developer.bitcoin.org/devguide/p2p_network.html
Then I have seen yet a real world scenario where a onlynet tor and i2p node cannot sync the timechain.
Nobody said that if your node is on Tor network will not sync. Will only be limiting the INBOUND connections to 8.
Do you ever used torrents? Bitcoin blockchain works almost the same as torrents.
In your torrent client you can open to limited peers to seed or to everybody. You can also limit the bandwidth and/or IPs./networks.
You can still download the torrent even if you do not open any port for seeding. That means you are only a leecher. Once you start opening to share more the torrent to multiple peers, then you became a seeder. For more seeders will have the torrent, faster will be downloaded and kept alive.