47+ Bitcoin Peers Dat Background. Bitcoin is a peer to peer cryptocurrency. The easiest way to get peer information is via the json rpc interface has a command getpeerinfo.
If an attacker is able to modify your block database files, then they can do all sorts of evil things which could cause you to lose bitcoins. Bitcoin is a peer to peer cryptocurrency. Jnewbery on nov 10, 2020
Any value equal to or greater than 32 should be fine here.
There are about 10,000 live peers in the bitcoin network right now, and in principle one could connect to all of them. Those addresses might show up as recent payments history. Make sure that you set correct destination for datadir and replace path 'd:\blockchain' to your downloaded blockchain folder if needed. Bitcoin core treats its block database files as 100% accurate and trustworthy, whereas during the normal initial sync it treats each block offered by a peer as invalid until proven otherwise.