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From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:44:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Do not bias outgoing connections towards fresh addresses
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This change was suggested as Countermeasure 2 in
Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network, Ethan Heilman,
Alison Kendler, Aviv Zohar, Sharon Goldberg. ePrint Archive Report
2015/263. March 2015.
---
 src/addrman.cpp | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/addrman.cpp b/src/addrman.cpp
index 05688fbdf..eb431ec59 100644
--- a/src/addrman.cpp
+++ b/src/addrman.cpp
@@ -63,8 +63,6 @@ double CAddrInfo::GetChance(int64_t nNow) const
     if (nSinceLastTry < 0)
         nSinceLastTry = 0;
 
-    fChance *= 600.0 / (600.0 + nSinceLastSeen);
-
     // deprioritize very recent attempts away
     if (nSinceLastTry < 60 * 10)
         fChance *= 0.01;