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by evbogue 403 days ago
Maybe there's a way to offset this risk by testing the speed of connections?

How does peer discovery work? Where do the region buckets live?

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Latency is considered in routing.

Every router announces itself on the network. Routers can optionally publish their IANA IP addresses.

Buckets live on the routers themselves.