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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: help with finding issues in a modifcation of Bitcoin core
by
bitsolutions
on 18/05/2015, 20:02:24 UTC
Achow101, you are basically asking for help to abuse the network.  Other people are not providing connectivity to you so that you can aggressively use up their resources and monitor their activity. Worse-- you are aggressively connecting to hosts without understanding software engineering well enough to avoid your own system failing-- how do you know that you're not also causing harm to those other hosts?  I hope that other people who understand the nature of the failure you're experiencing will also choose to not assist, sorry.  Please reconsider what you are doing.
I understand the reasoning behind this but I don't agree with how it is being handled by the core developers. The core developers worry that there won't be enough available inbound connections on nodes if too many people are establishing more than 8 outbound connections.

I don't think putting arbitrary limits into Bitcoin Core is a good idea since it forces others to maintain their own fork if they end up in a situation where these arbitrary limits are not desired.

The core developers have essentially caused fragmentation of Bitcoin Core because of this issue. They would rather use FUD to keep people from making these modifications instead of working with them to solve the underlying issues.