Anthony Towns [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2022-10-30 📝 Original message:On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at ...

📅 Original date posted:2022-10-30
📝 Original message:On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 11:02:43AM +1000, Anthony Towns via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > Some napkin math: there are about 250,000 transactions a day; if
> > we round that up to 100 million a year and assume we only want one
> > transaction per year to fail to initially propagate on a network where
> > 30% of nodes have adopted a more permissive policy, lightweight clients
> > will need to connect to over 50 randomly selected nodes.[1]
> A target failure probability of 1-in-1e8 means:

Oh, based on the "receive version message" log entries of a node that
only does outbound connections, over the last ~3 weeks I see about 3000
outbound connections (mostly feelers/block-relay-only ones), of which
a bunch identify as non-taproot supporting:

10 /Satoshi:0.16.0/:
13 /Satoshi:0.17.0/:
13 /Satoshi:0.17.0.1/:
28 /Satoshi:0.16.3/:
29 /Satoshi:0.19.0.1/:
36 /Satoshi:0.18.1/:
37 /Satoshi:0.19.1/:
39 /Satoshi:0.17.1/:
50 /Satoshi:0.20.0/:
94 /Satoshi:0.21.0/:
95 /Satoshi:0.18.0/:
244 /Satoshi:0.20.1/:

Those add up to 688+ of 3065 total; if that's representative, it
presumably means a random node connecting to 8 random listening peers has
a 6.44-in-1-million chance of only connecting to peers that don't support
taproot, ie failing your suggested threshold by a factor of about 644.

Cheers,
aj