* docs: link consensus to blockchain spec. closes#2422
* docs: deprecate research section. closes#2401
* docs: fix some links
* docs: fix some markdown lists
* docs: fix more links
Closes#2421.
I am of the opinion that the spec is easier to read than this though,
and we shouldn't really explain this here other than that we use a variant
of station to station protocol, with X25519 for the diffie hellman, and we
describe the related security properties.
Why:
original fork is abandoned and not supported anymore.
Changes:
- LevelDB 1.19 (LevelDB and Snappy are both compiled and linked statically, so while you will not need them installed on your target machine, you should have a roughly compatible version of libstdc++.)
- snappy and lz4 libs included by default
* addr_book_strick=false on local nets
* link to spec
* spec: remove TODO, see #1749 instead
* spec: make issues from TODOs
* update docs on addr_book_strict option
* [p2p/pex] connect to more than 10 peers
also, remove DefaultMinNumOutboundPeers because a) I am not sure it's
needed b) it's super confusing
look closely
```
maxPeers := sw.config.MaxNumPeers - DefaultMinNumOutboundPeers
if maxPeers <= sw.peers.Size() {
sw.Logger.Info("Ignoring inbound connection: already have enough peers", "address", inConn.RemoteAddr().String(), "numPeers", sw.peers.Size(), "max", maxPeers)
```
we print maxPeers = config.MaxPeers - DefaultMinNumOutboundPeers. So we
may not have enough peers even though we say we have enough.
Refs #2130
* update spec
* replace MaxNumPeers with MaxNumInboundPeers/MaxNumOutboundPeers
Refs #2130
* update changelog
* make max rpc conns formula visible to users
* update spec
* docs: note max outbound peers excludes persistent
* limit the number of requests in flights for Prometheus server
Closes#1804
Default to 1 because usually there's just one collector.
* config: Up default for prom connections
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