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Project management. Meta-tasks related to research, dev, and specs for the Spacemesh protocol and infrastructure.
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Reliance on Booster nodes #316

Open mathcrypto opened 3 months ago

mathcrypto commented 3 months ago

The current P2P implementation doesn’t work well behind a NAT. Since most users are behind a NAT, there’s a de-facto reliance on publicly accessible nodes that people behind NATs can use as relays. There’s no incentive to run such a node, other than wanting to keep the network alive. The solution is to make our P2P implementation work behind most NATs, so there’s no reliance on boosters.