load_peer_list

// loads peers list from disk

save_peer_list

//save peer list to disk

clean_up

// clean up by discarding entries which are too much into future

IsPeerInList

// check whether an IP is in the map already

GetPeerInList

Peer_Add

// add connection to  map

Peer_SetFail

// a peer marked as fail, will only be connected  based on exponential back-off based on powers of 2

Peer_SetSuccess

// set peer as successfully connected
// we will only distribute peers which have been successfully connected by us

Peer_Delete

PeerList_Print

// prints all the connection info to screen

Peer_Counts

// this function return peer count which have successful handshake

find_peer_to_connect

// this function finds a possible peer to connect to keeping blacklist and already existing connections into picture
// it must not be already connected using outgoing connection
// we do allow loops such as both  incoming/outgoing simultaneously
// this will return atmost 1 address, empty address if peer list is empty

get_peer_list

// return white listed peer list
// for use in handshake