{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1k2eekmevs6gg60df75qpjw4a2atmy89vx28c8zqq5jxy64tuzrws39qd6m","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1k2eekmevs6gg60df75qpjw4a2atmy89vx28c8zqq5jxy64tuzrws39qd6m","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2014-04-07\n📝 Original message:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nOn 04/07/2014 11:34 AM, Mike Hearn wrote:\n\u003e At the start of February we had 10,000 bitcoin nodes. Now we have 8,500 and\n\u003e still falling:\n\u003e \n\u003e    http://getaddr.bitnodes.io/dashboard/chart/?days=60\n\u003e \n\u003e I know all the reasons why people *might* stop running a node (uses too\n\u003e much disk space, bandwidth, lost interest etc). But does anyone have any\n\u003e idea how we might get more insight into what's really going on? It'd be\n\u003e convenient if the subVer contained the operating system, as then we could\n\u003e tell if the bleed was mostly from desktops/laptops (Windows/Mac), which\n\u003e would be expected, or from virtual servers (Linux), which would be more\n\u003e concerning.\n\nIt doesn't do much good to only focus on the immediate symptoms at the\nexclusion of big picture trends. There are three things happening now\nthat have nothing to do with operating systems.\n\n1. The resource requirements of a full node are moving beyond the\ncapabilities of casual users. This isn't inherently a problem - after\nall most people don't grow their own food, tailor their own clothes, or\nkeep blacksmith tools handy in to forge their own horseshoes either.\n\n2. The growth of small and medium-sized native Bitcoin businesses is\nlagging #1. Native here means their revenue and expenses are both\ndenominated in BTC. Most business adoption we've seen so far doesn't\nactually handle bitcoins themselves. They use Bitcoin as a payment\nmethod whose processing they outsource.\n\nContributing to this is the fact that Bitcoin Core, although it has made\ngreat progress in the 0.9 release, can't be accurately described as\n\"enterprise ready\".\n\n3. The P2P protocol used by the network is broken from an incentive\nperspective. Resource usage wouldn't be a problem as long as the users\nwhich consume resources pay for them and the users who provide resources\nare compensated, and they communicate via an efficient price discovery\nmechanism. Right now there is no obvious way to incorporate price\ndiscovery for bandwidth usage or storage space without a completely new\nP2P protocol, and the effectiveness with which progress has been blocked\ntowards price discovery of transaction fees (the area where it is most\nobviously necessary) means that I'm not optimistic that this subject\nwill ever be effectively addressed by Bitcoin Core.\n\n- -- \nSupport online privacy by using email encryption whenever possible.\nLearn how here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bakOKJFtB-k\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----\nVersion: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux)\nComment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/\n\niQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTQsgzAAoJECoisBQbQ4v0ZA8H/1YIJAg7AEUUe5RnuuAz7lVV\nuiHtpmbmGaZ+Bd0qi1DEfPdeBP9bDKpO3O5napmtz+mqIE5H3VgAVg7z9U0sMf16\nsZAJIWuVCg2drY/NaE+n3TKEEd4Z1Zj51rWde/KD6xjgR2usV9nLugkEJdLNahZu\n0EbdAv40oCSZ8PScNElYqQyM8qcbta7LuDRCnnWvCyunZJzL4LSkQwDcsAWQ+oSv\nFyqKY/e1Kd6mLyrN/NppMzdqiLv95zmE56Qkh6rlKeF+JgXxlfiEfDv8osl8IWJR\nTOpmW0Dr+E4qe9E3nA7X5gV46nf8gxGZ4b0cUP+wivN9RRaE27+JlKhKaAV3ulc=\n=vdPa\n-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----\n-------------- next part --------------\nA non-text attachment was scrubbed...\nName: 0x1B438BF4.asc\nType: application/pgp-keys\nSize: 21191 bytes\nDesc: not available\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20140407/a3b1250c/attachment.bin\u003e"}