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Bounty:  Prove that there are a large number of "fake" hubs

Amount: 1 ETH

Deadline: 1 month

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There’s a 1 ETH bounty if you can prove they are fake. A bunch of people have looked and they seem real enough.

Hey @v ,

I prepared a set of data which I believe *maybe* renders a reasonable amount of hubs (over 1500) fake.

Brief:
- Started fetching sample peers using @pinatacloud 's public hub [now I'm banned!!!! ;-)]
- Extracted external data on them using other endpoints.
- Found *Duplication on single ip but multiple ports* 250/7500
- Ran a portscan on 2281, 2282, 2283, & Found closed ports on clients even on gossipsub: 1300/7500
- Got hostnames, Contabo runs plenty of instances
- There are ToDos to go deeper (e.g. is some peer inbound at all?). there are already data about the sync status, numMessages, ...

* Please click *raw* to get the full version of CSV below.

p.s.1: I dont run a hub myself. I was late to bounty
p.s.2: Guess I had seen this bounty, but Dan't reply-cast draw my attention 9d ago:
https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x4056b451
p.s.3: I'm interested in following this prj to create a data-dashboard/healthcheck/indexer/? for FC hubs.

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Hey @v ,

I prepared a set of data which I believe *maybe* renders a reasonable amount of hubs (over 1500) fake.

Brief:
- Started fetching sample peers using @pinatacloud 's public hub [now I'm banned!!!! ;-)]
- Extracted external data on them using other endpoints.
- Found *Duplication on single ip but multiple ports* 250/7500
- Ran a portscan on 2281, 2282, 2283, & Found closed ports on clients even on gossipsub: 1300/7500
- Got hostnames, Contabo runs plenty of instances
- There are ToDos to go deeper (e.g. is some peer inbound at all?). there are already data about the sync status, numMessages, ...

* Please click *raw* to get the full version of CSV below.

p.s.1: I dont run a hub myself. I was late to bounty
p.s.2: Guess I had seen this bounty, but Dan't reply-cast draw my attention 9d ago:
https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x4056b451
p.s.3: I'm interested in following this prj to create a data-dashboard/healthcheck/indexer/? for FC hubs.

https://gist.github.com/behkod/d790fbfd5a8ebcef3f863b2312efed06