Over the past few years, I’ve been working on monitoring tools for the Bitcoin network. One of these projects is peer-observer: A tool and infrastructure for monitoring the Bitcoin P2P network for attacks and anomalies. This post describes the motivation for starting yet another Bitcoin network observer. It details how the tool works, what my honeypot infrastructure looks like, and finishes with an idea for a decentralized Bitcoin Network Operations Collective and incident response team.

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