This is a WIP! Its interface will change.

Requires a c++11 compiler.

Interesting features:

• Establishes connections to the Bitcoin network and others like it.
• Attempts to maintain as many incoming/outgoing connections as are allowed by the connection parameters.
• Works threaded or unthreaded.
• Fully async dns resolving.
• Fully async SOCKS5 support.
• Supports RESOLVE command for Tor DNS queries over SOCKS5.
• Accepts/Connects via IP or Unix domain sockets.
• Per-connection and per-group rate-limiting.
• Able to connect to different networks simultaneously.
• Generally attempts to mimic Bitcoin Core network behavior.
• Allows each connection to define connection properties: retries, persistent reconnects, etc.
• Does not leak networking behavior out of the library! Library users see only connection ids, so network behavior is abstracted away.
• Other fun stuff.

See the tests dir to get an idea of how things work.

First TODO: A design doc explaining the approaches taken (and many more that were tried and discarded).