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authorJon Atack <jon@atack.com>2020-03-10 17:16:54 +0100
committerJon Atack <jon@atack.com>2020-03-10 17:35:01 +0100
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doc: asmap release note
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- RPC Whitelist system. It can give certain RPC users permissions to only some RPC calls.
It can be set with two command line arguments (`rpcwhitelist` and `rpcwhitelistdefault`). (#12763)
+- A new `-asmap` configuration option has been added to enable IP-to-ASN mapping
+ for bucketing of the network peers to diversify the network connections. The
+ legacy /16 prefix mapping remains the default. See [issue
+ #16599](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/16599), [PR
+ #16702](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/16702), and the `bitcoind
+ help` for more information. This option is experimental and subject to changes
+ or removal in future releases.
+
Updated settings
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