Dude, go for a walk, chill a bit...

Lafu and Shotgun are both good people, with a sincere interest in crypto, they were just trying to help fix something that got broken. No need for an ego match here.

Without bothering to look at the src code, because I am lazy, and also busy, I would hazard a guess that whoever cloned up epc from doge didn't bother to change the network magic, and because of this, the doge wallets can happily chat with the epc wallets if they happen to connect with each other. The little chat only gets confused when they try exchanging blocks...then it all goes to hell.

Had the magic been made unique like it was intended, the wallets would disconnect instantly when discovering they are talking to the wallet for a different coin..with different network magic numbers..

It also isn't helping that you are giving out nodes with random port numbers stuck at the end, this will not work. That is the outbound port for the connection, you want a node address to point to the inbound port (the P2Port), that is the only port the other wallet is LISTENING on ...