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I noticed that a company I have connections with, has an asset (ip) that appears on this bitcoin peer list; http://pastebin.com/HTPjuJBt
In laymens terms, what is a peer list, and should I be concerned that said asset is compromised, or can any asset be chosen as a peer? In otherwords, if not explicitly 'allowed' by a company, can a node still appear in this list?
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It's a list of IP addresses or domain names running Bitcoin that you can give to your Bitcoin client with addnode configuration directives.
Probably not.
It depends on who's writing the list.
No. Your node will probably get more requests and connections, but Bitcoin can self-limit, so it's not a big deal.
Try asking the author of the list. The worst thing they can do is say no.
Alternately, you can shut down your Bitcoin node.
You can look up any IP block and see who owns it through ARIN's database. Of course, it may have been subleased or rented out to a third party.
