db:control/block-relay-only-connections
Control
Block-Relay-Only and Trusted Peer Connections
Bitcoin Core maintains a small set of block-relay-only peers that exchange blocks but never transaction or address information, making it much harder for an attacker to use them to learn your networ…
The full control page — threats it mitigates, FR/SL mappings, and citations — lands when Defending Bitcoin ships on June 15, 2026.