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Simulating a TRON Transaction's Gossip Trace from Public Listener IPs

A TRON transaction spreads across the network the same way a rumor spreads across a crowded room. This post takes 7,637 public TRON listener IPs from the TronScan nodemap, connects listeners within 800 km using the haversine formula, and walks a synchronous BFS wavefront outward from a synthetic Frankfurt origin — reaching 3,380 nodes in eight hops with visible geographic chokepoints and isolated islands. Covers what raw listener IPs reveal once paired with coordinates, and the random geometric graph and percolation mathematics underneath.
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Cryptogrammar research documents market dynamics, execution mechanics, and infrastructure challenges that institutional traders face. Each piece combines theory with real-world data from live trading ...

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Colocation and Latency for Crypto Trading: Same-Provider vs Cross-Provider, Cross-Region

We benchmark latency from EC2 in Tokyo and US East 1 to AWS and GCP Europe endpoints using TCP/TLS timing. From AWS US East 1, connect time to AWS Europe is ~74–104 ms and to GCP Europe ~87–99 ms. From Tokyo to the same endpoints it is ~216–225 ms (AWS) and ~248–262 ms (GCP). Same provider is lower than cross-provider. Here's the methodology and how to run the script yourself.
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Building a Basic Order Book in C++

Order books are fundamental data structures in trading systems. They maintain lists of buy and sell orders, match them, and provide real-time market depth information. In this article, we'll build a b...
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Life and Human Behaviour as a Fractal

What if we imagine life and human behaviour as fractal patterns—self-similar structures repeating at different scales and use it to change? Hold on, hold on...
EXPLAINERS

How to Track the Internet with Shodan API

Shodan is a search engine for Internet-connected devices. Unlike traditional search engines that index websites, Shodan indexes devices, services, and infrastructure exposed to the internet. This tuto...