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I am working on a new tool for bitcoin nodes, based on @b10c 's

GitHub - peer-observer/peer-observer: Tooling to monitor for P2P anomalies and attacks using Bitcoin Core honey pot nodes

Tooling to monitor for P2P anomalies and attacks using Bitcoin Core honey pot nodes - peer-observer/peer-observer

work... I am forking it to create something a bit more hacker-friendly. Introducing #bitcointap: a quick and easy way to tap into any bitcoin core node and extract traces in realtime

GitHub

GitHub - jb55/bitcointap: A tool for tapping into bitcoin-core tracepoints to extract data in realtime

A tool for tapping into bitcoin-core tracepoints to extract data in realtime - jb55/bitcointap

@b10c has done most of the hard work here. I am just making his tool a bit more unixy.

Replies (6)

jb55 _@jb55.com 7 months ago

now that I think about it, there's no reason this couldn't also be a library... hmmm that would be slick.

b10c b10c@b10c.me 7 months ago

🤙

npub1nccw...z7mj 7 months ago

It looks cool but it seems like something that Wireshark can do much better.

What am I missing or getting wrong?

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jb55 _@jb55.com 7 months ago

This is just one trace, bitcointap can trace things other than network code

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jb55 _@jb55.com 7 months ago

Another cool thing is you can use this like a library. You can tap data streams from bitcoind into rust programs directly

David A. Harding dave@dtrt.org 7 months ago

Additionally to the other responses in this thread, an increasing amount of Bitcoin P2P traffic should be encrypted, which makes it harder to analyze with network tcpdump style tools.