145 How do Bitcoin clients find each other? 2012-05-01T05:31:52.367

39 How does the bitcoin client make the initial connection to the bitcoin network? 2011-11-20T16:41:55.593

11 Why doesn’t Bitcoin use UDP to do Blockpropagation? 2018-09-13T13:38:47.247

7 What is the difference between the bitcoind command line options "addnode" and "connect"? 2013-05-10T05:21:03.567

6 How secure are the DNS servers for Bitcoin? 2012-05-01T17:14:47.067

6 Can any Bitcoin client do local peer discovery and blockchain synchronization? 2012-11-19T18:22:34.000

6 How do bitcoin nodes initially find peers? 2013-05-30T11:27:41.253

5 How does bitcoin find peers? 2013-11-07T00:17:13.857

5 How peer discovery works after connecting to hardcoded nodes? 2015-10-28T02:25:35.253

4 Why doesn't Lightning have DNS bootstrapping? 2019-06-11T13:17:20.193

3 Bitcoin testnet not connecting to hardcoded ip addresses 2015-10-22T12:09:13.043

3 How does the Bitcoin p2p network work? Does it need port forwarding? 2019-09-29T16:11:27.017

3 Can we shutdown the Bitcoin blockchain? 2019-10-17T22:22:38.287

2 no IPv6 peers connecting to my node 2015-07-02T02:30:09.437

2 Bitcoin peer list 2016-05-12T01:39:01.487

2 How does a node forget about other nodes? 2017-06-12T11:39:36.307

2 How does the network handle changing IPs? 2017-07-06T00:08:02.987

2 Clarification of some getaddr() function inputs and outputs 2017-10-13T19:08:06.590

2 Why is my Electron Cash not detecting any servers? 2017-11-18T08:39:13.720

2 Finding IP addresses of all bitcoin miners 2017-12-23T04:08:32.930

2 How Do Peers Choose Which Peer To Trust? 2018-04-25T03:59:57.360

2 How do my bitcoin peers become diversified from the set of stable nodes? 2018-05-21T19:58:22.367

2 When an IP address in *new* table is overwritten? 2018-10-30T17:09:16.110

2 Double Spend Behavior on First Network Propagation 2019-10-02T10:20:40.593

1 Bitcoin.conf connect command 2014-04-20T21:38:07.093

1 Altcoin peers do not sync with each other 2015-03-20T02:36:26.053

1 How to trigger port for Bitcoin client (e.g. 8333) 2015-10-20T16:05:25.310

1 What happens when a node goes offline for a while? 2017-04-13T15:33:46.893

1 Persistency of Seed Nodes 2017-05-13T00:40:15.583

1 Why connected node count have dropped since august 1st? 2017-09-06T01:40:17.057

1 How to load a peer list file? 2017-09-26T17:41:23.607

1 How many peers does bitcoind try to connect to? 2017-10-13T11:07:23.050

1 How a web-service like bitnode.earn can know each node's blockchain height? 2018-10-09T08:24:36.387

1 How often does a node connect to a random node? 2019-08-02T01:39:57.923

1 Does finding neighbors in Bitcoin consider locality and hop count? 2019-08-02T14:01:44.400

0 AWS ELB for Bitcoin node discovery? 2017-01-29T12:35:48.260

0 Unable to connect to peers nor synchronize the network 2017-04-22T02:47:12.413

0 Working with the Bitcoin network protocol 2017-06-09T09:09:31.883

0 Does bitcoin-core software/client connects with only same version number nodes? 2017-09-04T20:51:57.027

0 How does blockchain ensure that a closed loop in network is not formed? 2018-04-07T03:59:25.110

0 Inbound requests after opening Electrum 2018-10-27T03:49:35.383

0 P2P getHeaders message - how to get block locator hashes 2019-05-15T12:23:52.160

0 How does a node find the active chain? 2019-08-09T18:25:54.143