Luke-Jr [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2013-05-26 📝 Original message:On Thursday, May 16, 2013 ...
📅 Original date posted:2013-05-26
📝 Original message:On Thursday, May 16, 2013 10:55:44 AM Addy Yeow wrote:
> Is the number representing the count for the client nodes?
>
> I was curious of the count myself earlier this week and started to
> traverse down the network using getaddr message starting from seed
> nodes and found upward to 57k nodes running protocol >= 70001 with
> timestamp no older than 24 hours.
This sounds accurate for listening nodes, and similar to what my own system
counts: http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/security.html
Of course, it doesn't include the (many?) connect-only nodes (eg, mobile or
firewall/NAT'd) or non-p2p nodes (eg, Electrum).
Luke
📝 Original message:On Thursday, May 16, 2013 10:55:44 AM Addy Yeow wrote:
> Is the number representing the count for the client nodes?
>
> I was curious of the count myself earlier this week and started to
> traverse down the network using getaddr message starting from seed
> nodes and found upward to 57k nodes running protocol >= 70001 with
> timestamp no older than 24 hours.
This sounds accurate for listening nodes, and similar to what my own system
counts: http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/security.html
Of course, it doesn't include the (many?) connect-only nodes (eg, mobile or
firewall/NAT'd) or non-p2p nodes (eg, Electrum).
Luke