Addnodes

Nodes come from three places: the address books of our own nodes, a small seed list, and, if you opt in, the peers your TUI wallet is connected to.

None of that is enough to be published. Every candidate is connected to on a schedule, and only addresses that answered make it into the list. A node that stops answering is checked with a growing backoff, and a node that has been dead for months is still checked daily, so it reappears by itself if it comes back.

The published list is capped at about 25 entries per network and spread across different networks and hosting providers. It is useless to add hundreds addnode= lines, a short list is a much smaller footprint for the people running those nodes.

Off by default. gridcoinresearch-tui can share the addresses of the peers your node connected to, which tells us whether a node is reachable from somewhere that is not our server. This is opt-in feature. It is possible to change the settings at any time later.

A report contains the IP and port of the node, a random identifier your wallet made up locally, and the wallet version. It does not contain your wallet addresses, your balances, your transactions, your CPID, or your own IP address. We store a hash of that random identifier rather than the identifier itself. Shall you still worry please check the source code of the tui wallet.