Hey everyone, I've got a dedicated Bitcoin Core node patched with FIBRE, running on a high-performance Ubuntu system. I've set it up with a DDNS endpoint and a properly port-forwarded UDP gateway. I'm trying to reduce my block propagation latency. My internet speed is pretty solid with 0.6 Gbps download and 0.2 Gbps upload, latency is under 24 ms, and I've got about 4 ms jitter.
I'm on the lookout for a group of folks who are into exchanging keys for trusted UDP connections.
I’ve linked my GitHub below where you can check out some of the tooling I've been using for my node. I'm also open to providing traceroutes to your target IP to ensure our routing path is good before we swap keys.
https://github.com/options4good/Bitcoin-Core-vs-Bitcoin-Knots-Speed-Test
Thanks!
Peter
The fork stopped tracking Core a long time ago, so finding active peers willing to swap UDP keys is rough. Most people chasing propagation latency these days just lean on compact blocks with a few solid -addnode peers.
Out of curiosity, what kind of gains are you actually measuring over plain compact block relay?
lclhost.org posted this article February this year: https://lclhost.org/blog/fibre-resurrected/
The Github repository has been recently updated also: https://github.com/bitcoinfibre/bitcoinfibre/
I was generally interested to see the performance difference (on the latency side) between Core and Knots, performed the test and thought they will be head to head, but the nearly 1 second difference is interesting, so I thought I would try to kick in the FIBRE's UDP engine and redo the test to see the result. So, that is why I would like to get hooked on, on that network, but it requires the secured key sets. I have contacted lclhost.org, but no answer. It looks like they are looking for big guys who have servers in data centers right at the sea ports and not interested in the little guys. I would love to exchange keys with a couple of peers....