Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#35943: doc: fix dead link in txrequest.h
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Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#35943: doc: fix dead link in txrequest.h
a7b0b5084a4a75306a6e88481264f9e4c36a8f08 doc: fix dead link in txrequest.h (cyb3ralbert)
Pull request description:
The link is dead. Both the file and the whole `blockchainbib/` section return 404. The host certificate expired on 2026-08-07, so the site looks abandoned rather than moved.
It was a local copy of Miller et al. 2015, *Discovering Bitcoin's Public Topology and Influential Nodes*. The [`blockchainbib` bibliography](https://github.com/kernoelpanic/blockchainbib) that distributed it points to `cs.umd.edu/projects/coinscope/coinscope.pdf`, where the original is still accessible.
No other occurrences in the tree.
ACKs for top commit:
l0rinc:
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sedited:
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What changed, and why it matters
This commit only fixes a broken web link in a code comment. It replaces an outdated URL to a research paper with a working URL to the same paper. There is no change to program logic, no security fix, and no vulnerability.
No security action needed. Treat as a routine documentation maintenance merge.
Security signals we found
No strong security signals were identified.
Evidence from the diff
The patch updates a single URL inside a documentation comment in src/txrequest.h. The old link (allquantor.at/blockchainbib/pdf/miller2015topology.pdf) is dead; the new link (cs.umd.edu/projects/coinscope/coinscope.pdf) points to the same Miller et al. 2015 paper. No executable code was modified.
Changed components
src/txrequest.h (documentation comment only)Inspect captured patch +1 / −1
### src/txrequest.h
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
* cap on the number of tracked announcements per peer. As failed requests in response to announcements
* from honest peers should be rare, this almost solely hinders attackers.
* Transaction censoring attacks can be done by announcing transactions quickly while not answering
- * requests for them. See https://allquantor.at/blockchainbib/pdf/miller2015topology.pdf for more
+ * requests for them. See https://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/coinscope/coinscope.pdf for more
* information.
*
* - Transactions are not requested from a peer until its reqtime has passed.Why this scored 15/100
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