The developers of Bitcoiner have shared a set of technical resources for Bitcoin Core users to prevent connections with nodes of Bitcoin node clients. The programmer, called Aeon, a social network, believes that while some of the community interprets this blacklisting creation as a political decision, it is a technical and structural solution.
Aeon refers to their resources seeking to reduce friction that receives Bitcoin core nodes When connected to many nodes that run knots. The developer formulates the problem as follows: “Why do you want a node to connect to an unreliable pair that distorts the rate estimation and increases the delay in the propagation of the block?”
By default, the Knots node implements a very restrictive retransmission policy to prevent certain valid Bitcoin transactions from spreading through the Bitcoin network. This means that if the node is connected to most knot nodes, this allows you to correctly calculate the commission and increase the time it takes to receive new blocks.
aeon, Bitcoin developer.
According to Coin Dance, Bitcoin Knot has around 2,500 nodes, which is more than 13% of the total that exists. This means individual users (the ability to calculate commissions and block reception times) suffering from the technical limitations cited by Aeon They can “end” connections on more than a tenth of Bitcoin nodes.
A list of knots that could become vanes was placed next to the resources in the repository and was retrieved from bitnodes.io. This shows a list of IP addresses associated with achievable nodes. Eon shared a post showing a list of Nodds cornered by the message: “Thank you for your attention in this issue.”
Certain parts of the community were critical of blacklist nodes. Some believe this will create a “node war” within a network that should function simultaneously as a unified, compact system.
Similarly, this “node splitting” causes some negative impact on the network. Discounts on knot nodes, Bitcoin still has around 19,000 and runs Bitcoin coreother Bitcoin customers. Therefore, many nodes can broadcast transactions with the remaining non-isolated peers following the protocol.
If the number of knot nodes reaches 50% of the total and many people adopt a blacklist of nodes, the negative impact on the network could have a greater reach.