XT fails because if every IP using it is blacklisted, it would be dead.
XT is like terrorism against Bitcoin and the community.
There is no blacklisting. You've been lied to. Go read the code directly, or have someone you trust check it for you.
Here's the actual reality:
- All nodes have connection limits - they can't connect to each and every other node in the world. The default limit for popular nodes is 125.
- That limit is normally only reached if someone out there is trying to attack you with a denial of service attack. My node runs at about 30 connections, all day, every day.
- At present, when the limit is reached, no new nodes can connect. If you're filled with attackers, that's bad for Bitcoin.
All of the above is the way it works in Core, right now. Here's what XT adds, intended to improve this situation:
- XT has a list of TOR exit nodes, and can read an updated list of TOR exit nodes.
- ONLY when the connection limit is reached, instead of blindly blocking new connections, XT will select a TOR exit node to disconnect to allow the new plain connection.
- When the DOS attack is over, those connections will once again be accepted.
