Monitoring Bitcoin’s P2P network: Insights from the peer-observer Project

Thursday, November 6, 2025

I presented about “Monitoring Bitcoin’s P2P network: Insights from the peer-observer Project” at the Chaincode Labs Bitcoin Research Day 2025.

Slides (Google Docs)

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