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Questions tagged [p2p]

Peer-to-peer file sharing or communications technology.

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How do the Monero nodes find each other?

Given that there is no point of centralization, where a node can ask 'who are my peers?', how does discovery work?
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After Kovri arrives will some full nodes need to remain on clearnet?

After Kovri arrives will some full nodes need to remain on clearnet? How would peer discovery work if all full nodes suddenly converted to I2P for both inbound and outbound connections? If most nodes move to Kovri, but a small number remain on…
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What is Kasisto?

What is Kasisto? Is there a demo available? Is it open source? If so where can I see the source code? Who is the developer? How can I become a beta tester?
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Can the Monero block chain be used for anonymous communication/ data storage/ private records for small to big entity?

Can the Monero block chain be used to transmit anonymous messages or for data storage?, For example a military secret, confidential state data, company private records, employee payroll, private communication between two users, or a group, private…
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Is there a list of active monero full nodes?

Is there a list of active Monero full nodes? Something like Bitnodes for Bitcoin that maintains a list of IP addresses for currently active Monero nodes.
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How do I figure out what nodes I'm connected to and who is sending what to who?

When I type print_cn into the daemon, I see a lot of OUT and IN entries. Does OUT mean that I am sending information OUT to that peer, or is that peer sending information to me? Or is it a two-way connection? If I see an IN connection, is that…
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Is there information available about the Levin protocol?

Is there any information available about the Levin protocol? It seems to be used for the peer to peer communication. Things like: The working of the protocol? What are the benefits? Why was it chosen for Monero? Is it used in any other product?…
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What does this p2p info mean from the daemon log?

2016-Jul-30 22:32:06.864931 [P2P0][x.x.x.x:18080 OUT]NOTIFY_NEW_BLOCK (hop 3) 2016-Jul-30 22:32:06.865073 [P2P5][x.x.x.x:18080 OUT]NOTIFY_NEW_BLOCK (hop 4) 2016-Jul-30 22:32:06.865221 [P2P1][x.x.x.x:18080 OUT]NOTIFY_NEW_BLOCK (hop 2) 2016-Jul-30…
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Downloading Monero updates using the existing Monero P2P network

Instead of downloading Bitmonero updates from centralized sources such as GitHub or Getmonero would it be possible to distribute updates by using the existing Monero P2P network of full nodes? If this is technically possible, is there also a way the…
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Could a DDoS attack on the hardcoded seed nodes bring down the Monero network?

I've seen a list of hardcoded seed nodes in the Monero code. If somebody DDoSed these IPs until their servers crashed, would it be enough to bring down the Monero network? If not, what effect would it have?
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Can we use Coinshuffle++ insights to improve privacy in relaying Monero transactions?

Coinshuffle is a communication protocol that allows for a number of peers to privately collaborate in making a Bitcoin coinjoin transaction in such a way that they all provide their addresses for the transaction, but still it is not possible for the…
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Do nodes authenticate other nodes for p2p purposes? (re: incoming connections)

What I'm getting at is... what happens if an attacker/bad actor/etc were to see that I'm running a node and that I'm allowing incoming connections? To what extent is my computer exposed by port forwarding through my router's firewall to my node? …
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What is Monero current communication protocol?

There is a lot of info about on-blockchain privacy, much less about actual peer to peer communications (or I'm extremely bad at finding it). What are the message types (the analogy to inv/addr/getdata/tx/block of Bitcoin)? How are the messages that…
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What is the maximum number of incoming connections by default? 0 or unlimited?

Based on this question in 2016, there is no limit on the number of incoming connections. However, based on this commit in 2018, users can set a limit for this number. By default, when I don't set any limit for the arg_in_peers via RPC command, the…
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Why do incoming transfers appear in my wallet later than in block explorer?

ok, so I'm running the standard monero client ( simplewallet ). Twice now I have received incoming transfers from shapeshift.io. The shapeshift interface notified me at the moment the xmr transfer was sent and provides a link to a block explorer to…
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