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I was developing my own bitcoin version, and I need to know. Can someone provide a list of clients that are trusted clients, to always be up, and at the latest version, 24/7. Something that would be hard coded into a bitcoin client.

Hi Macintosh264,

You are using bitcoinj I believe so can use the class com.google.bitcoin.discovery.DnsDiscovery to get your peers rather than hardcoding them.
In MultiBit I have the following (in the class MultiBitService):


               // use DNS for production, IRC for test
                if (useTestNet) {
                    peerGroup.addPeerDiscovery(new IrcDiscovery(IRC_CHANNEL_TEST));
                } else {
                    peerGroup.addPeerDiscovery(new DnsDiscovery(networkParameters));
                }

In the code of DnsDiscovery is:

   public static final String[] defaultHosts = new String[]{
        "bitseed.xf2.org",          // Static
        "bitseed.bitcoin.org.uk",    // Static
        "dnsseed.bluematt.me"      // Auto generated
    };

    /**
     * Supports finding peers through DNS A records. Community run DNS entry points will be used.
     *
     * @param netParams Network parameters to be used for port information.
     */
    public DnsDiscovery(NetworkParameters netParams) {
        this(getDefaultHostNames(), netParams);
    }

    /**
     * Supports finding peers through DNS A records.
     *
     * @param hostNames Host names to be examined for seed addresses.
     * @param netParams Network parameters to be used for port information.
     */
    public DnsDiscovery(String[] hostNames, NetworkParameters netParams) {
        this.hostNames = hostNames;
        this.netParams = netParams;
    }

trusted peers are NOT the way to go. and running the latest version is not possible as it is a opensource project with forks, and alternative clients

trusted peers are what bitcoin uses if it can't hit the IRC channel.  What do you propose instead?

I think he means latest version of the protocol, not the client.  These two things get confused all the time because they are both called "bitcoin."

i do not trust the peers i connect to! its better to call them known peers.
if you want trusted peers go to solidcoin.

Oh I see. You are correct "known" is more accurate than "trusted" and should be used instead.