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Peer Discovery and Addrman

ops.peer-discovery

How nodes discover, score, and rotate peers using address relay and addrman persistence.

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Curated resources (3)

• Bitcoin Core Academy: Addrman (article) Core implementation details for peer address management.
• Bitcoin Core Academy: Address Relay (article) How address gossip works and where poisoning risks appear.
• Bitcoin P2P Networking Reference (article) Reference for version, addr, and related network messages.

Direct prerequisites (2)

• Bitcoin P2P Message Flow
• Run a Full Node

Direct dependents (7)

• AddrMan Bucketing
• AddrV2 (BIP 155)
• ASMAP Peer Diversity
• DNS Seeds
• Eclipse Attacks
• Erlay Transaction Relay
• Peer Eviction Protection

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