fix: make P2P networking work, and let a node mine on its own - #143
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Swarm.listen() waits on a nursery that only exists while the swarm runs as a background service, so a node calling host.get_network().listen() directly never finished starting up: no multiaddr printed, no inbound connections possible. Listening now goes through host.run(). The dialing side had the same problem in reverse — it borrowed a nursery attribute the swarm doesn't expose, so a peer that dialed out never registered the connection or read from it. Both now use the nursery this module already opens for itself. Two mining bugs made a fresh chain effectively unusable: mining refused to produce a block when the mempool was empty, but the mining reward is the only source of new coins, so a chain that had never received one could never mine its first coin either. And two blocks minted within the same millisecond were rejected, since consensus requires strictly increasing timestamps. Both are fixed at the source: an empty block still carries the reward and proof-of-work, and the timestamp is clamped to be newer than the parent's instead of just read off the clock. A node that accepted a transaction or block only kept it — it never told any other peer, so a network more than one hop wide couldn't stay in sync. Accepted content is now relayed onward, excluding whoever sent it, with the existing dedup set stopping the echo from circulating. That set was unbounded, and now that it's load-bearing for stopping gossip loops rather than just avoiding duplicate work, its size is capped with an LRU eviction. Smaller fixes bundled in because they're cheap and adjacent: `peers` now lists the peer IDs it's connected to, not just a count; the JSON-RPC server's bind address is a flag instead of hardcoded to loopack; two unused constants (TRUSTED_PEERS, LOCALHOST_PEERS) are removed; and the README's --connect example, which predates the multiaddr-based CLI, is corrected.
WalkthroughThe PR enables reward-only mining with increasing timestamps, configures the JSON-RPC bind host, exposes peer IDs, bounds P2P deduplication caches, relays valid messages across peers, updates stream serving, and documents full libp2p multiaddress usage. ChangesNode runtime controls
P2P networking
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR enables optional non-loopback RPC exposure without caller authentication and may show incomplete peer IDs when a peer has multiple active connections. The default RPC binding remains local, so the change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up on deployment protection and peer tracking. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SourcePeer
participant P2PNetwork
participant DestinationPeer
SourcePeer->>P2PNetwork: Send transaction or block
P2PNetwork->>P2PNetwork: Validate and mark as seen
P2PNetwork->>DestinationPeer: Relay valid message excluding SourcePeer
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In `@minichain/p2p.py`:
- Line 354: Update the cleanup logic around _peer_ids.discard in the stream
lifecycle to retain a peer ID while any stream with that ID remains active.
Track active-stream counts per peer or check the remaining streams before
discarding, and remove the ID only after the final stream closes.
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Keep each peer ID until all streams for that peer close. main.py uses peer_ids for CLI output. If multiple active streams share a peer_id, cleanup of any one stream calls _peer_ids.discard(peer_id) while another stream remains in streams. Track active-stream counts per peer, or discard the ID only when no stream with that ID remains.
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In `@minichain/p2p.py` at line 354, Update the cleanup logic around
_peer_ids.discard in the stream lifecycle to retain a peer ID while any stream
with that ID remains active. Track active-stream counts per peer or check the
remaining streams before discarding, and remove the ID only after the final
stream closes.
| ### 2. Connecting to an Existing Chain | ||
| To connect a secondary node to the network, start a new instance on a different port and point it to the seed node using the `--connect` flag. | ||
| To connect a secondary node to the network, start a new instance on a different port and point it to the seed node using the `--connect` flag with the full multiaddress the seed node printed on startup (it includes the seed's peer ID, not just its host and port). | ||
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| # Start RPC server on a port correlated to the node port (e.g. 8545 if P2P is 9000) | |||
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Shouldn't we move these magic numbers to the config file?
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Addressed Issues:
P2P never actually started — listen() hung forever, and the dialing side never registered its own connection. Both fixed. Also fixes two mining deadlocks (empty mempool blocked mining forever; same-millisecond blocks got rejected), and adds gossip relay so a message travels past one hop. Bundled in: bounded dedup cache, peers shows real IDs, --rpc-host flag, dead constants removed, stale README fixed.
Test plan: 81/81 pytest passing (new relay + dedup tests). Live: star-topology relay, empty-block mining, same-millisecond guard, --rpc-host, peers output.
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