Welcome to the last update of the year. We’re happy to be finishing on a high, with the CloserNet testnet and the community helping us check our fix for what we hope will prove to be the last major bug in basic data handling.
We were making an assumption that nodes were being ordered by closeness to our node, whereas this was not in fact the case. This was causing storage and pricing anomalies along with other issues where we might have asked the wrong nodes for data. We now order nodes by XOR distance.