bitcoin/contrib/seeds

Seeds

Utility to generate the seeds.txt list that is compiled into the client (see src/chainparamsseeds.h and other utilities in contrib/seeds).

Be sure to update PATTERN_AGENT in makeseeds.py to include the current version, and remove old versions as necessary (at a minimum when SeedsServiceFlags() changes its default return value, as those are the services which seeds are added to addrman with).

Update MIN_BLOCKS in makeseeds.py and the -m/--minblocks arguments below, as needed.

The seeds compiled into the release are created from sipa's, achow101's and luke-jr's DNS seed, virtu's crawler, and asmap community AS map data. Run the following commands from the /contrib/seeds directory:

curl https://bitcoin.sipa.be/seeds.txt.gz | gzip -dc > seeds_main.txt
curl https://21.ninja/seeds.txt.gz | gzip -dc >> seeds_main.txt
curl https://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/seeds.txt >> seeds_main.txt
curl https://mainnet.achownodes.xyz/seeds.txt.gz | gzip -dc >> seeds_main.txt
curl https://signet.achownodes.xyz/seeds.txt.gz | gzip -dc > seeds_signet.txt
curl https://testnet.achownodes.xyz/seeds.txt.gz | gzip -dc > seeds_test.txt
curl https://testnet4.achownodes.xyz/seeds.txt.gz | gzip -dc > seeds_testnet4.txt
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asmap/asmap-data/main/latest_asmap.dat > asmap-filled.dat
python3 makeseeds.py -a asmap-filled.dat -s seeds_main.txt > nodes_main.txt
python3 makeseeds.py -a asmap-filled.dat -s seeds_signet.txt -m 237800 > nodes_signet.txt
python3 makeseeds.py -a asmap-filled.dat -s seeds_test.txt > nodes_test.txt
python3 makeseeds.py -a asmap-filled.dat -s seeds_testnet4.txt -m 72600 > nodes_testnet4.txt
python3 generate-seeds.py . > ../../src/chainparamsseeds.h