# Bitcoin Backbone: User Agent Usage

**URL:** https://bnoc.xyz/t/bitcoin-backbone-user-agent-usage/172
**Category:** Research
**Created:** [September 8, 2026, 7:16pm UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/bitcoin-backbone-user-agent-usage/172 "2026-09-08T19:16:58Z")
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### Author: ![ariard](https://bnoc.xyz/user_avatar/bnoc.xyz/ariard/32/369_2.png) [@ariard](https://bnoc.xyz/u/ariard)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2026, 7:16pm UTC](https://bnoc.xyz/t/bitcoin-backbone-user-agent-usage/172/1 "2026-09-08T19:16:58Z")

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Hello,

In the context of [bitcoinbackbone.org](http://bitcoinbackbone.org), we start some real-world networking test on mainnet.

As an indicative purpose, the user agent is the following “backbone-alpha:0.0.1”.

So far, we’re testing all the initial connection with v1 and v2 of the protocol and addr-related traffic (PING, ADDRV2, etc).

Yeah, if you see it appearing in your logs it’s likely it and I’m careful with experimentations on the network.