It isnโt used for banning, its for ensuring connection diversity so you donโt get eclipse attacked
How is ASmap heuristic node clustering much different from Chainalysis' heuristic utxo clustering??
Both are applying (questionable) heuristics to some public (or private) metadata;
Are Bitcoiners really advocating for the use central banlists* now? REALLY??
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*yup, it's literally downloading a list from https://github.com/asmap/asmap-data/blob/main/latest_asmap.dat . But i'm sure our beloved governments will provide such a curated peer list going forward... ๐คฆ
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I understand that the *intent* of Asmap is righteous; but at the end of the day your are banning/closung connections to peers that are "on the list"
I just hate everything about it. Pseudo-scientitic labeling of "good vs bad" peers. We'll get a risk score next
except thats not true. It doesnโt ban any ips on a list, it just ensures that the active connections arenโt all from a single entity
>The number of knots nodes i'm connected to has dropped off a cliff. fascinating.
>I also ban all aws nodes from my node. surely a coincidence.
Are we not splitting hairs? ASmap makes you disconnect/not connect in the first place to a set of nodes, which is defined in the dat file.
Maybe it's not technically an (ip) ban, but the dat list acts de facto as a "shun list" the way i see it.
Please correct me if i'm wrong.
Looks like another Core Dev attack on Knots. JB55 is a spam supporter and disingenious at the same time.
That is not what it does, it just tries to be diverse across different asans. It's not a shun list.
Ok i see, but what's and how things are getting clustered into a certain AS is important. These are all just heuristics; for instamce just because several nodes share the same AWS region doesn't mean they are one AS, and that you shouldln't connect to more than one.
running with asmap in bitcoin isn't really that important, but using asmap to cluster afterwards to detect sybils is the important thing. i didn't detect and clearnet knots sybils via asmap bucketing