[Bitcoin-development] P2P tests: peers.dat's requested

2015-02-15 Thread Ethan Heilman
Hi All, I am currently running some tests on the peering system in Bitcoind for a research paper. We hope to develop improvements which we can share with the community. A wide diversity of real peers.dat files would be very helpful. If you are willing, please email me your peers.dat. Thanks,

[Bitcoin-development] Research on partitioning Bitcoind nodes: Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network

2015-03-23 Thread Ethan Heilman
Hi All, There has been much discussion lately on the dev list about misbehaving peers and attacks on the P2P network. We'd like to share our research on partitioning Bitcoind nodes from the rest of the network. Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network Abstract: We present eclipse

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Meta suggestions for this block size debate

2015-06-01 Thread Ethan Heilman
I second this, I don't have time to read the large number of emails generated every day from the block size debate. A summary of the various positions and arguments would be extremely helpful. On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:02 PM, gabe appleton gapplet...@gmail.com wrote: Also, can we try to get a