btc-crawl/README.md

btc-crawl

Bitcoin node network crawler (written in golang).

This is a for-fun project to explore the Bitcoin protocol and network.

Current status:

• It crawls with all kinds of nice parameters but stores everything in memory until dumping a giant JSON blob at the end.
• It crawls from hard-coded values and spits a bunch of stuff to stdout.

Usage

$ go get github.com/shazow/btc-crawl
$ btc-crawl
...

Todo

(In approximate order of priority)

• Apply peer-age filter to results
• Stream JSON rather than accumulate into a giant array.
• Add timeout option.
• Graceful cleanup on Ctrl+C
• Namespace packages properly (outside of main)