They create black list of bitcoin Knots attainable nodes

A Bitcoiner developer shared a series of technical resources for Bitcoin Core users to prevent the connectivity of its node with those of the Bitcoin Knots client. This programmer, called AEON on social networks, considers that it is a technical and structural solution, although part of the community interprets the creation of this blacklist as a political decision.

Aeon refers that their resources seek to reduce the friction to which a bitcoin core node is subjected When it is connected to many nodes that run Knots. The developer formulates the problem as follows: “Why would I want my node to connect to non -reliable pairs that distort the estimation of the rate and increase the latency of propagation of the block?”

By default, Knots nodes implement a very restrictive retransmission policy that tries to prevent certain valid Bitcoin transactions from spreading through the Bitcoin Network. This means that, if your node is connected to most Knots nodes, this will make its ability to calculate commissions correctly and increase the time it takes to receive new blocks.

AEON, Bitcoin developer.

According to Coin Dance, Bitcoin Knots has around 2,500 nodes, which represents a little more than 13% of the almost 22,000 in total that exist. This means that individual users suffering from the technical limitations cited by AEON (ability to calculate commissions and block reception time) They can “terminate” their connection with more than a tenth of the nodes in Bitcoin.

The list of Knots that can be bane is placed next to the resources of the repository, and was taken from Bitnodes.IO, which shows a list of IP addresses associated with attainable nodes. Aeon shared a post showing a list of nodots banened next to the message: “Thank you for your attention in this matter.”

A certain part of the community was critical of the blacklist nodes. Some consider that this creates a “war of nodes” within a network that should work in unison, as a unified and compact system.

Likewise, this “nodes division” causes some negative effect on the network. Discounted to Knots nodes, Bitcoin still has about 19,000 that running Bitcoin Corethe other bitcoin customer. Therefore, many nodes can still broadcast transactions with the remaining non -segregated peers that follow the protocol.

If the number of Knots nodes reaches 50% of the total and many people adopted the blacklist of nodes, the negative effect on the network could have more reach.