On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Jameson Lopp <jameson.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one concerned about the consistent > dropping of nodes. Though I think that the fundamental question should be: > how many nodes do we really need? Obviously more is better, but it's > difficult to say how concerned we should be without more information. I > posted my thoughts last month: > http://coinchomp.com/2014/03/19/bitcoin-nodes-many-enough/
In my opinion, the number of full nodes doesn't matter (as long as it's enough to satisfy demand by other nodes). What matters is how hard it is to run one. If someone is interesting in verifying that nobody is cheating on the network, can they, and can they without significant investment? Whether they actually will depends also no how interesting the currency and its digital transfers are. > On 04/07/2014 07:34 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: >> At the start of February we had 10,000 bitcoin nodes. Now we have 8,500 and >> still falling: >> >> http://getaddr.bitnodes.io/dashboard/chart/?days=60 My own network crawler (which feeds my DNS seeder) hasn't seen any significant drop that I remember, but I don't have actual logs. It's seeing around 6000 "well reachable nodes" currently, which is the highest number I've ever seen (though it's been around 6000 for quite a while now). -- Pieter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees_APR _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
