i'm investigating an old alt coin that hasn't had a update in months, all the online nodes and wallets report wallet protocol versions as 70013 which I think is a standard Bitcoin protocol?
Recently though one has been popping up on the explorer with a version 0 protocol. I've seen it come online twice now, both with the same IP address. Is there anything that would explain this? Could it be a new version being tested in secret?
That seems like they have implemented their own version numbering since 70013 is not a current protocol version in Bitcoin. Here is a list of all of the versions: https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-reference#protocol-versions in Bitcoin. Version 0 is probably something that someone did in that altcoin that isn't a part of bitcoin.Recently though one has been popping up on the explorer with a version 0 protocol. I've seen it come online twice now, both with the same IP address. Is there anything that would explain this? Could it be a new version being tested in secret?
So if all the old versions of the wallet are based on version 70013 does that mean this could be a new secret wallet in testing? One theory one of my friends suggested is it could be a multi-coin wallet like electrum.
I guess I'm just trying to figure out if there is clues to the coin being worked on in secret. Otherwise I can't think of any other explanation.
