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0 sats \ 16 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 2h \ parent \ on: Some important aspects for node runners bitcoin

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?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @02d769cb73 2h

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

0 sats \ 14 replies \ @88b0c423eb 2h

Do tor and i2p work only in my network/area?

0 sats \ 13 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 2h

is more about your latency

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @88b0c423eb 2h

i2p is better than tor in that regard.

0 sats \ 11 replies \ @88b0c423eb 2h

it's not only 8(connected to 18 rn) as you say and not limited by my area.

0 sats \ 10 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 2h

let me know when you can show me 100 or even more peers downloading blocks from your node, without opening the port 8333.

0 sats \ 9 replies \ @88b0c423eb 2h

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.

0 sats \ 8 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 2h

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.

0 sats \ 7 replies \ @88b0c423eb 2h

you wrote "the difference between a "personal node" (aka unreachable) and a "full node" (aka reachable)?" and "I wonder how many of those Umbrel/Start9/mynodes/RPi nodes at home (also behind Tor) are real full nodes (reachable) that really help the network and relay properly."

implying that those "personal nodes behind tor" are not reachable. as you also wrote "our shity RPi unreachable node behind Tor".

So your info is not correct, as those rpi and etc personal nodes behind tor can be rrachable and have inbound connections even more than 8. I am nor sure why your're spreading false information, but that's on you.

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @DarthCoin OP 2h

reachable means port 8333 open, it means more than 8 default limit peers that can download from your node. non-reachable means port 8333 closed. All Tor nodes cannot open port 8333. Tor do not use ports.

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