Are 2 ports necessary? about naivechain HOT 4 OPEN

There is clear separation of concerns between the different ports.

The P2P port is for only peer to peer communication with other nodes. This port should be public to internet as other nodes should be able to connect to your node.

The other port (HTTP_PORT) is used only for controlling the node. It should not be public to the internet and only the user of the node should be able to access it.

This same kind of "architetcture" is used in all of the "well-known" blockchain implementations I know of (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin etc.)

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Websockets are needed. Although you can query the network via http but how will you broadcast to the network when you add a block. Constantly querying the network will be a very bad solution.

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@adeora7 you have /addPeer which could store peer addresses instead of creating a websocket client and then simply post there, you wouldn't need to do any kind of polling.

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