Network, Relay & Client Sync • Estimated 55m

DNS Seeds

ops.dns-seeds

Bootstrap mechanism that gives new nodes initial peers before ongoing address gossip takes over.

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Curated resources (3)

• Bitcoin Developer Guide: P2P Network (article) Bootstrap flow and role of seed peers in initial discovery.
• Bitcoin Core Academy: Bootstrapping (article) Detailed IBD and peer selection startup process.
• Bitcoin Core Academy: Addrman (article) How discovered addresses are scored and retained after bootstrap.

Direct prerequisites (1)

• Peer Discovery and Addrman

Direct dependents (0)

• None

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