When a node starts up, how does it know what other nodes to talk to?
When a node starts up, how does it know what other nodes to talk to?
Is there a central list of nodes somewhere? If not, how do nodes know how to talk to each other?
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It works in the same way that torrents enables decentralised downloads.
There are a bunch of nodes that are always one and the IP addressea are hard coded in the node software. These nodes have the addresses of all other nodes.
Once your node connects to one if these hard coded nodes you’ll synchronize and get all the addresses of other nodes.
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