title: Pool
description: A simple interface to create and maintain a set of connections to bitcoin nodes.
---
# Pool

A pool maintains a connection of [Peers](peer.md). A pool will discover peers via DNS seeds, as well as when peer addresses are announced through the network.

The quickest way to get connected is to run the following:

```javascript

var Pool = require('bitcore-p2p').Pool;
var Networks = require('bitcore').Networks;

var pool = new Pool(Networks.livenet);

// connect to the network
pool.connect();

// attach peer events
pool.on('peerinv', function(peer, message) {
  // a new peer message has arrived
});

// will disconnect all peers
pool.disconnect()

```

For more information about Peer events please read the [Peer](peer.md) documentation. Peer events are relayed to the pool, a peer event `inv` in the pool would be `peerinv`. When a peer is disconnected the pool will try to connect to the list of known addresses to maintain connection.

## Trusted Peers

By default, peers will be added via DNS discovery and as peers are announced in the network. To connect only to specific trusted peers, configurations options can be included:

```javascript

var pool = new Pool(Networks.livenet, {
  discover: false,
  listenAddr: false,
  addrs: [
    {
      ip: {
        v4: '127.0.0.1'
      }
    }
  ]
});

pool.connect();

```