15:55:03 test 15:57:30 passed 15:58:11 Ah good, bridge at discord.noncesense.org works again 16:03:23 h/t @n3ptune 20:43:51 We have had a fairly large number of asshole peers on the network for quite a while enow. I suspect they're spies. 20:44:06 They all point to each other in their peer lists 20:44:43 A good research subject would be... how to ensure that a node selects peers to connect that mostly avoids those. 20:45:12 Actually... simpler: assign a "asshole score" to any peer, which can then be used to inform other decisions. 20:45:47 It's been a while since I looked, but IIRC their peer lists aren't 100% identical, just mostly. 20:46:27 So some kind of distance metric between peers which looks at their peer lists (knowing that we only receive partial peer lists) might work. 20:46:54 That can only be calcualted once we've connected thouhg. 20:47:05 Other ideas welcome. 20:49:19 Isthmus: quantum 20:54:39 AFAIK they also mirror your own block height. 21:39:13 Is the main problem they drop transactions during stem? 21:39:55 The main problem is probably they spy on us. 21:40:12 The proximate problem is some people get stuck with only those and can't sync. 21:40:38 IIRC they used to relay txes (or blocks ? this was a log time ago). 21:41:09 Funny that. A log time ago puts even more more emphasis than a long time ago... 22:08:14 what is the relation of them being densely connected among themselves and spying? 22:13:39 i.e. what practical advantage wrt. spying would these colluding spies gain by connecting to each other through monero's p2p layer?