12:37:23 <utxobr[m]> interesting - aug 2nd: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.00815.pdf "Estimating the Node Degree of Public Peers and Detecting Sybil Peers Based on Address Messages in the Bitcoin P2P Network"
12:45:23 <merope> Could this be used as some kind of DDoS attack as well? If a lot of nodes try to contact a small number of IP addresses at the same time (whether they are actual nodes or not), they might contribute to overwhelming that IP's bandwidth (at least in a brief burst)
13:03:18 <wfaressuissia[m]> No, it's useless *****. The final goal is to work behind anonymization network which allows cheap identity rotation.
14:13:54 <gingeropolous> merope, i came across this re: clustering . <gingeropolous> https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost
14:26:53 <merope> Thanks gingeropolous ! I'll look into it