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		joezydeco on Dec 7, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How the Bitcoin protocol actually works Nice start. Another dumb question: how do individual transactions get to the miners for addition to the blockchain? Is there some P2P-type auto discovery going on? A central server shouting out miner IPs?

olalonde on Dec 7, 2013 [–]

There's an article on that here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_Client_Node_Discovery

TL;DR: The peer discovery process is bootstrapped using a few domain names hard coded in the client. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/chainpara...

DennisP on Dec 7, 2013 | | [–]

Thanks. Is there anything on the protocol for passing messages around once you've found some peers?

joezydeco on Dec 7, 2013 | | [–]

Geez. That seems...vulnerable.

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