{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub17ty4mumkv43w8wtt0xsz2jypck0gvw0j8xrcg6tpea25z2nh7meqf4qgyd","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub17ty4mumkv43w8wtt0xsz2jypck0gvw0j8xrcg6tpea25z2nh7meqf4qgyd","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2014-04-07\n📝 Original message:\u003e\n\u003e In my opinion, the number of full nodes doesn't matter (as long as\n\u003e it's enough to satisfy demand by other nodes).\n\u003e\n\nCorrect. Still, a high number of nodes has a few other benefits:\n\n1) The more nodes there are, the cheaper it should be to run each one,\ngiven that the bandwidth and CPU for serving the chain will be spread over\nmore people.\n\n2) It makes Bitcoin *seem* bigger, more robust and more decentralised,\nbecause there are more people uniting to run it. So there's a psychological\nbenefit.\n\nAlso, we don't have a good way to measure capacity vs demand at the moment.\nWhether we have enough capacity is rather a shot in the dark right now.\n\n\n\u003e What matters is how hard it is to run one.\n\u003e\n\nWhich is why I'm interested to learn the reason behind the drop. Is it\ninsufficient interest, or is running a node too painful?\n\nFor this purpose I'd like to exclude people running Bitcoin Core on laptops\nor non-dedicated desktops. I don't think full nodes will ever make sense\nfor consumer wallets again, and I see the bleeding off of those people as\nnatural and expected (as Satoshi did). But if someone feels it's too hard\nto run on a cheap server then that'd concern me.\n\n\n\u003e My own network crawler (which feeds my DNS seeder) hasn't seen any\n\u003e significant drop\n\n\nIt would be good to explain the difference, but I suspect your definition\nof \"well reachable\" excludes people running Core at home. From the diurnal\ncycle we see in Addy's graphs it's clear some nodes are being shut down\nwhen people go to bed. So if we have 6000 nodes on servers and 2000 at\nhome, then I'd expect Addy's graphs and yours to slowly come into alignment\nas people give up using Core as a consumer wallet.\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20140407/3d4fd9cb/attachment.html\u003e"}