Bitcoin ADDR messages spiked 5x in a short period.


The market is all over this news.
ADDR (short for "address") is a type of message Bitcoin nodes send each other to share IP addresses of other nodes on the network.
Since April 9, daily unique ADDR messages went from ~50,000 to ~250,000 after sitting near the same baseline for eight years straight.
Sounds dramatic, but Bitcoin is built for this if it's an attack.
An attacker would need to isolate nodes from honest peers, which is hard when nodes connect across different parts of the internet.
Someone might be probing weak edges or looking for a specific target:
→ Exchange
→ Miner
→ Whale
→ Infrastructure provider
Would you say this is an eclipse attack or something else?
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