Bitcoin Nodes and Broadcasting Transactions

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Quote from: bgibso01 on July 01, 2015, 11:24:57 PM

So I received one of the bitnodes and fired it up on the network. What a neat little box. Not being 100% savvy about how the bitcoin network handles traffic, I was surprised to see that my little node has already had some transactions that it relayed first according to blockchain.info.

How did my node receive a transaction first? I've read about the broadcasting and such, but wondered if it had to do with proximity when finding peers to broadcast to or what?

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Node that broadcasted transaction is either not connected to blockchain.info node or your node has much lower ping (latency).

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Quote from: shorena on July 03, 2015, 11:50:08 PM

Quote from: bgibso01 on July 01, 2015, 11:24:57 PM

So I received one of the bitnodes and fired it up on the network. What a neat little box. Not being 100% savvy about how the bitcoin network handles traffic, I was surprised to see that my little node has already had some transactions that it relayed first according to blockchain.info.

How did my node receive a transaction first? I've read about the broadcasting and such, but wondered if it had to do with proximity when finding peers to broadcast to or what?

A non technical response works

Blockchain.info only displays who sends them a TX first. This only means that your node was connected to a node by bc.i and to another node that was not connect to bc.i, but had a TX they (bc.i) did not have. Its possible that your node was the nth in a longer line, bc.i however can not detect that.

e.g.: Origin Node -> A -> B -> C -> your node -> bc.i node

Thanks for the response. That makes sense. Right now I've got 48 connections on that little box. Very neat item.

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Quote from: bgibso01 on July 01, 2015, 11:24:57 PM

So I received one of the bitnodes and fired it up on the network. What a neat little box. Not being 100% savvy about how the bitcoin network handles traffic, I was surprised to see that my little node has already had some transactions that it relayed first according to blockchain.info.

How did my node receive a transaction first? I've read about the broadcasting and such, but wondered if it had to do with proximity when finding peers to broadcast to or what?

A non technical response works

Blockchain.info only displays who sends them a TX first. This only means that your node was connected to a node by bc.i and to another node that was not connect to bc.i, but had a TX they (bc.i) did not have. Its possible that your node was the nth in a longer line, bc.i however can not detect that.

e.g.: Origin Node -> A -> B -> C -> your node -> bc.i node

bgibso01

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So I received one of the bitnodes and fired it up on the network. What a neat little box. Not being 100% savvy about how the bitcoin network handles traffic, I was surprised to see that my little node has already had some transactions that it relayed first according to blockchain.info.

How did my node receive a transaction first? I've read about the broadcasting and such, but wondered if it had to do with proximity when finding peers to broadcast to or what?

A non technical response works

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