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How does one attain 1,000+ connections like blockchain.info?

At this moment, blockchain.info has over 1,900 nodes connected to their bitcoin client. I have been running an m1.small ubuntu 12.04 server and bitcoind for ~4 days straight now with no reboots. My bitcoind client still only shows ~60 connections…
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What if a country 100% denominated in a cryptocurrency loses internet connectivity to the rest of the world?

Please assume a small island nation becomes 100% denominated in a cryptocurrency. Now please assume that for some reason the rest of the world manages to cut if off from the rest of the internet for some extended period of time, eg 1 year or…
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What is the difference between inbound and outbound connections?

I have port 8333 open with 8 outbound and 2 inbound connections. Is my node transmitting and receiving transactions and blocks from both types of connections? Or does the "inbound" flag mean I am just downloading from that peer, and not sending any…
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Bitcoin is not connected in regtest mode

I am having trouble using regtest mode on Linux. Using pre-compiled version 0.9.2.1 for linux and starting regtest mode as instructed on bitcoin.org: -linux/bin/64>> ./bitcoind -regtest -daemon The server starts but doing a getinfo…
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How to resolve "no block source available"?

I've got some trouble using bitcoin-qt. It stays on: "No block source available... 242 weeks behind." And "Catching up ... Processed 0" etc... Map port using UPnP is activated, and proxy disabled and I have 7 active connections to the Bitcoin…
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With peerblockfilters=1 hundreds of "btcwire 0.5.0/neutrino" connections are downloading TB from my Bitcoin node

I run Bitcoin Core 0.21.0 from a data center, unmetered, with compact block filters enabled (blockfilterindex=1 peerblockfilters=1). Soon after the restart, I get a huge number (140-200) of connections identifying as btcwire 0.5.0/neutrino, from all…
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Allowing Incoming Connection on Bitcoin Core

Good Evening, I recently installed Bitcoin Core v0.12.1 on my home server (running Windows 7) and wanted to allow it to accept incoming connections and used the guide found here: https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#windows-7 to ensure I did everything…
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Is there a connections limit on bitcoind?

I don't know if it is a lot or a few, but I see this number of connections: bitcoin-cli getnetworkinfo | grep connections "connections": 66, It does not seem to get over 70, is there an in-built limit? If yes, can I tweak the limit of connections…
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List transactions *relayed* by my full node?

Running Bitcoin Core full node 24/7, with 70+ peer connections. Is there a bitcoin-cli command that will let me see the transactions that my full node has relayed from its SPV "clients"? FWIW, I can use Blockchain.info to search for my physical IP…
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What exactly does the scary option "Allow incoming connections" do in Bitcoin Core?

Software authors seem to enjoy consciously freaking me out by having vaguely or entirely uncommented options in their software with very ominous labels. In Bitcoin Core's settings, it says "[X] Allow incoming connections", which has an entirely…
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How to make bitcoind connect to more nodes?

Let's say I have a dedicated server just for my bitcoind and for better reliability and some security reasons I want it to be connected to a much bigger number of nodes than it is willing to do by default (about 40-50). Providing that I have enough…
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GUIMiner won't start mining on Slush's pool

I started co-mining on Slush's pool successfully for about 48 hours, but from there on I haven't been able to connect to it again. It logs in the console this, no matter if I'm using a valid worker and password or not: 2013-05-26 12:55:19: Listener…
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What are the risks of running an online store via a bitcoind connection using less than the minimum of 8 connections?

I have 1GB of memory to work with on my VPS. I want to run bitcoind as well as a few other crypto currency daemons. As it stands, number of connections seem to be the only value I can change that has any impact on my memory usage. I have bitcoind…
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How often does Bitcoin connect to the fallback nodes?

Does the standard client have a preference for connecting to fallback nodes (for example, by trying to have at least 1 connection to such node at all times), or are they treated like any other nodes?
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Hypothetical situation: the Internet gets split in two, what happens with Bitcoin?

Let's suppose, that at some time the Internet gets split in two, possibly because of wartime, or another possibilities (there was once a situation, when Egypt managed to split the internet in their country from the outside). There begins to exist…
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