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If the map is correct, the first node that saw the transaction is located roughly in Frankfurt, Germany which is a major financial centre. The transaction was m
by this_user 13y ago
If the map is correct, the first node that saw the transaction is located roughly in Frankfurt, Germany which is a major financial centre. The transaction was made at 5:38 local time which is right around the time the Frankfurt exchange closes. Might be this transaction was done by a larger financial institution closing up shop for the week.
- josephagoss 13y agoRemember this is the first node that the Blockchain.info website saw. This relay information is extremely misleading. So that German node could have relayed the transaction from another node before Blockchain.info became aware of it. (Blockchain.info is connected to about 1% of all the active Bitcoin nodes)
- this_user 13y agoWell, how does the propagation of transactions in the BTC network work? I honestly don't know, but I would assume that it is more likely for the originating node to be near to the relaying node than not.
- nwh 13y agoEvery peer makes an announcement that they've seen a new transaction to every one of it's 8+ peers, if a peer doesn't know about the transaction that's announced, they send back an inventory request to get it for themselves. There's never really many degrees of separation between nodes, but you're probably incorrect in that blockchain.info knows anything about the originator of the transaction. They connect to a large number (abusively) of nodes, but not enough to do this sort of discovery. There's a reasonable portion that never expose themselves to the public network at all.