Amiti returns to the Chaincode office to discuss all things p2p.

We discuss:

• Why Amiti works on P2P (1:50)
• A framework for p2p design (4:25)
• How do we systemize Bitcoin Core knowledge? (6:20)
• Searchable #bitcoin-core IRC logs (8:35)
• Forward compatibility and upgradability (15:00)
• Partition resisitence (16:10)
• Eclipse Attacks (17:00)
• Altnet (20:40)
• Messages sent across the wire (20:55)
• AddrRelay and AddrMan (24:35)
• Bootstrapping, DNS seeds and address announcements (25:25)
  • DoS issues (27:35)
  • Address Manager (29:00)
  • New table and tried table (30:00)
• The Bitcoin network “dance” (31:25)
• Transaction download on Bitcoin’s p2p network comic (32:25)
• Addresses and proof of work (32:45)
• Inbound and outbound connections (34:00)
• Block relay only connections and full connections (35:35)

Thanks to Caralie for the sound engineering.