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Sure, but closing the default port limits the tech to people with the interest and technical knowledge to proxy it in such a way. ISPs could also do DPI or timi

Sure, but closing the default port limits the tech to people with the interest and technical knowledge to proxy it in such a way. ISPs could also do DPI or timing analysis to id the stream and slow or block it. It was tried successfully (by Comcast) on bittorrent in the the early 00's and is one of the things that triggered the whole Title II fight in the first place.

gruez 9y ago
>It was tried successfully (by Comcast) on bittorrent in the the early 00's and is one of the things that triggered the whole Title II fight in the first place. torrents are hard to hide because no matter how much encryption/obfuscation you do, you can't hide gigabytes of data being transferred between residential IPs, using random ports. bitcoin uses megabytes of data per hour, which means it's much easier to use stenography to hide it.
- TehCorwiz 9y ago
  How large do you think the blockchain is? Let's find out: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=current+bitcoin+blockchain+size http://lmgtfy.com/?q=current+bitcoin+blockchain+size Looks like the current full blockchain (required for a full node) is over 100GB. So bringing a node online could be blocked as it resembles a bittorrent stream pulling from peer nodes. According to this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/43o74m/my_bitcoin_node_contributed_more_than_850_gb_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/43o74m/my_bitcoin_... It contributes quite a lot to traffic. And as usage increases... Sure, it's MBs a minute, but it's also constant.