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Topic
Board Development & Technical Discussion
Merits 13 from 4 users
Re: Rules to manually ban misbehaving peers
by
achow101
on 25/02/2019, 15:12:22 UTC
⭐ Merited by Foxpup (4) ,suchmoon (4) ,ETFbitcoin (3) ,Welsh (2)
Why do you think those peers are malicious? The blockchain is over 150 GB. Those peers are probably syncing the blockchain.

Bitcoin Core does not think those peers are malicious, otherwise it would have disconnected and banned them itself. It has its own ban criteria which is much more than just bandwidth usage and strange versions (the version isn't even a criteria). This criteria includes things like receiving invalid blocks and transactions, receiving a lot of malformed messages, etc. Downloading a lot of blocks is not evidence of malicious behavior.