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Bitcoin client bootstrap before 0.6.x
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https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Network

#IRC#

As-of version 0.6.x of the Bitcoin client, IRC bootstrapping is no longer enabled by default. The information below is accurate for most versions prior.

Bitcoin joins a random channel between #bitcoin00 and #bitcoin99 on irc.lfnet.org. Your nick is set to an encoded form of your IP address. By decoding all the nicks of all users on the channel, you get a list of all IP addresses currently connected to Bitcoin.

For hosts that cannot make outbound connections on port 6667, the lfnet servers are also listening on port 7777.

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kaichen commented Mar 25, 2014

IRC的文本协议足够简单，方便扩展，RFC里也已经描述了其分布特性。

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