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Ask HN: How does Bitcoin clients find each other?
- sagivo 9y agoBitcoin nodes use DNS seeds, that part is hardcoded and I think the only non-decentralized part of bitcoin. You can find the DNS addresses [here](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/1b2460bd5824170ab85757e35f81197199cce9d6/src/chainparams.cpp#L112 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/1b2460bd5824170ab857...) and read more information [here](https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide#p2p-network https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide#p2p-network)
- billconan 9y agohere is an info page for bitcoin peer discovery https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/3536/how-do-bitcoin-clients-find-each-other https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/3536/how-do-bitc... Zack, the author of basiccoin told me that https://github.com/zack-bitcoin/basiccoin https://github.com/zack-bitcoin/basiccoin