sasha

> Brilliant presentation at Zero-Knowledge summit. The visual and spacial metaphor for the circuits and gadgets is quite elegant. Is there video of the presentation / PDF of the slides?...

i'm currently trying to code up a seeder in Rust using zebra's networking crates: https://github.com/superbaud/zcash-cotyledon

i have it connecting to nodes; though it exits immediately afterward. https://github.com/superbaud/zcash-cotyledon/commit/fa6676747290b28fca5c06af7dddc5d6dba49135

Per [the zebra book](https://zebra.zfnd.org/dev/diagrams/zebra-network.html), the `zebra-network` crate *does* crawl the network for additional peers (and the number of peers etc can be configured, we'll need to set that sufficiently high),...

Also ZF has a dns seeder written in Go https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/dnsseeder (putting this down so i dont forget myself)

Thank you very much; this gives a good overall view of the features of the codebase that i'm gonna want to hook into! I do have an issue I'm a...

Ohhhhh, I had removed the `Buffer` part of things thinking that that wouldn't cause anything to break and thinking it was something non-necessary (for it to compile) like `load_shed()` was....

Got it compiling and replying to `zn::Request::Peers` requests, thank you very much!

So it doesn't work quite yet for bootstrapping as a "fixed seed node" (by removing `peers.dat`, and invoking zcashd with `-dnsseed=0 -port=12345`), then adding ``` static SeedSpec6 pnSeed6_main[] = {...

Oh interesting, thanks for pointing me at that, I'm going to try and look deeper at what zcashd does on startup when I'm pointing it at a `zebra-network`-based node that...