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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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I actually spend some time on this today. 

My idea is that majority of hubs are not "fake" but sybil farmers. So, most of them wouldn't know/care about well-connectivity and just run 10-100s of them via automation.

My idea is to build something like ethernodes.org, collect enough of peers and run analytics:

1. In-sync status
2. Uptime/Availability. I already noticed some peers struggle to reply for heavy queries

Anything else?

The biggest problem so far is inconsistency between peer APIs: 

gRPC API returns useful data about messages/sync status and most of nodes would keep it open, but it has only peerID and not IP address. 

JSON API has IP addresses, but doesn't have peerID and not reliable as many(?) hubs will have it closed. 


I'm working on a small patch for JSON RPC to expose PeerID there, once my local hub starts I will test it.