According to the post, this behavior may indicate that the entity is trying to determine if a particular node can be reached at a particular IP address.
Anyone know about this?
Governmen
Could this be an attempt by some government, or set of governments, to limit bitcoin in some way? It could be the prelude to a "war" aimed at limiting privacy and anonymous transactions that world governments want to carry on.
Read what franky1 said and a few others. This is noting new. There are sites that have been doing it for years. THERE ARE OR WERE A FEW THINGS ON GITHUB THAT WOULD DO THIS. All nodes can find out about all other nodes. That is how
BTC works.
Part of me wants to report this thread, another wants it to stay up to fight FUD so there is real info out there.
-Dave