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authorJon Atack <jon@atack.com>2022-03-01 21:13:22 +0100
committerJon Atack <jon@atack.com>2022-03-03 16:14:01 +0100
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init, doc: improve -onlynet help and tor/i2p documentation
and harmonize them as follows - s/outgoing/automatic outbound/ - s/Incoming/Inbound and manual/ (are not affected by this option.) - s/only through network/only to network/ - s/this option. This option/this option. It/ - s/network types/networks/ and also pick up a few nits in doc/p2p-bad-ports.md
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-When Bitcoin Core automatically opens outgoing P2P connections it chooses
+When Bitcoin Core automatically opens outgoing P2P connections, it chooses
a peer (address and port) from its list of potential peers. This list is
-populated with unchecked data, gossiped over the P2P network by other peers.
+populated with unchecked data gossiped over the P2P network by other peers.
A malicious actor may gossip an address:port where no Bitcoin node is listening,
or one where a service is listening that is not related to the Bitcoin network.
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ authentication are unlikely to be considered a malicious action,
e.g. port 80 (http).
Below is a list of "bad" ports which Bitcoin Core avoids when choosing a peer to
-connect to. If a node is listening on such a port, it will likely receive less
+connect to. If a node is listening on such a port, it will likely receive fewer
incoming connections.
1: tcpmux