Community seeders needed to help bootstrap nodes onto the network

[bitcartel]

When a node launches, it asks a seeder for IP addresses of other nodes on the network it can connect to. Seeders are a small program that crawl the network continuously. The result is that a user does not need to manually add IP addresses.

Bitcoin Core (BTC) has 9 seeders: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/2a07c4662d7266158d47f79fa2433ab22e22c907/src/kernel/chainparams.cpp#L134

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has 8 seeders.
https://gitlab.com/bitcoin-cash-node/bitcoin-cash-node/-/blob/master/src/chainparams.cpp?ref_type=heads#L204

Scash currently only has 1 seeder. If this seeder goes offline, new nodes will struggle to find network nodes to connect with.

Setting up a seeder is fairly easy and cheap. The cost is free if you already have a server and domain name. To host on a low-spec VPS in the cloud will cost a few dollars a month and a new domain name can cost just a few dollars per year.

The recommended approach is to run Generic Seeder with Cloudflare (which is also free): https://github.com/team-exor/generic-seeder

With settings.conf updated for Scash networking:

pchMessageStart_0 = "0xfa"
pchMessageStart_1 = "0xbf"
pchMessageStart_2 = "0xb5"
pchMessageStart_3 = "0xda"
wallet_port="8343"         

And also updated for your domain e.g. seed.yourdomain.xyz which provides IP addresses of nodes:

cf_domain="yourdomain.xyz"
cf_domain_prefix="seed"
cf_username="YOUR_CLOUDFLARE_EMAIL_ADDRESS"
cf_api_key="YOUR_CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY"
cf_seed_dump="dnsseed.dump"