For a few hours I found 158 XT nodes which send "Bitcoin XT" user agent identification. Geoip shows 156 of them use IP located in Russia. Conspiracy?List of nodes found so far

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Interesting. Thx for the update. A long long long time ago I predicted the global geopolitical strategy would play a role in the security of Bitcoin. Now we see them dirty Chinese giving the XT guys (all two of them) a serious case of heartburn. Nothing brings my heart more joy.

They might be NotXT nodes. The UDP floods that have been relentlessly DDoSing XT nodes have had roots to a russian ISP.

So russians attacks russians? Just checked. My node is not XT and not under any kind of attack. I just check incoming connections on port 8333 for version string "Bitcoin XT". Whoever sends this version string to my bitcoin node goes to list.

Don't know if I should put my tin hat on for this.... I can see Russia doing what it can to slow the Bitcoin train threw supporting disruption.

weren't they finally pro bitcoin lately, they unbanned it and are kind sustaining the whole thingi throught they were not against it anymore, i think they are only trying the new client before otheror all those nodes belong to a single entity

Don't know if I should put my tin hat on for this.... I can see Russia doing what it can to slow the Bitcoin train threw supporting disruption.

I know they have relaxed their position on it publicly, but don't belive that they would want to give very much power to something they can't control. UNLESS it slowly becomes more centralized. Man the rabbit hole could go deep on this 1. I'm not going to put much more thought into it and chalk it up to Putin and Hearn wrestle bears together.

DDoS usually goes from infected computers which have no significant geo preference. This case is outstanding. I can't figure out why they all have Russian IP. And why Russian botnet motherhost attacks Russian XT nodes. What the fuck is going on?

Here is my theory honestly , we all know how russians are good at Cracking and hacking and that kind of stuff , so it's probably just some cracked VPS they sold them in some hacking forum in bulk for cheap price and voilà (or they are using them on bitcoin themselfs)

So one russians hire vps and bring up XT nodes. Other russians attacks first ones. And me (I also russian) discover all this shit.