{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1tjephawh7fdf6358jufuh5eyxwauzrjqa7qn50pglee4tayc2ntqcjtl6r","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1tjephawh7fdf6358jufuh5eyxwauzrjqa7qn50pglee4tayc2ntqcjtl6r","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2014-04-07\n📝 Original message:On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Jameson Lopp \u003cjameson.lopp at gmail.com\u003e wrote:\n\u003e 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/\n\nIn my opinion, the number of full nodes doesn't matter (as long as\nit's enough to satisfy demand by other nodes).\n\nWhat matters is how hard it is to run one. If someone is interesting\nin verifying that nobody is cheating on the network, can they, and can\nthey without significant investment? Whether they actually will\ndepends also no how interesting the currency and its digital transfers\nare.\n\n\u003e On 04/07/2014 07:34 AM, Mike Hearn wrote:\n\u003e\u003e At the start of February we had 10,000 bitcoin nodes. Now we have 8,500 and\n\u003e\u003e still falling:\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e    http://getaddr.bitnodes.io/dashboard/chart/?days=60\n\nMy own network crawler (which feeds my DNS seeder) hasn't seen any\nsignificant drop that I remember, but I don't have actual logs. It's\nseeing around 6000 \"well reachable nodes\" currently, which is the\nhighest number I've ever seen (though it's been around 6000 for quite\na while now).\n\n-- \nPieter"}