Thanks @vasild

So, please correct me if I'm wrong, but the thousand 'new buckets' approach and each node being able to access only 64 of them, does not seem to be helping much, considering that the all the nodes advertise incoming addresses without checking them.

That's basically what I'm seeing.


Now imagine scenario that you're starting a new node, with a brand new IP.
It is going to have a hard time getting incoming connections anytime soon, considering that it competes with hundreds of thousands of fake IPs.