Bitcoin

Description

This indicates an attempt to use the Bitcoin protocol.
Bitcoin is an online monetary currency. The Bitcoin network is a p2p payment network that uses cryptography to send bitcoins anonymously.
Note:
The Bitcoin mining protocol is covered by the signature Bitcoin.Cryptocurrency.Miner.

Affected Products

Bitcoin

Impact

Network bandwidth consumption

Technology

Browser-Based, Network-Protocol, Client-Server, Peer-to-Peer, Cloud-Based, Mobile-Device

Behavior

• Reasonable

Default Ports

• TCP/8333

References

• https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification