I don't know the impact of number of nodes on a network, but if Gavin based is opinion on Ethereum having more nodes than Bitcoin I don't think the fundamentals is solid enough, unless it is a personal attack on the Bitcoin core developers for dethroning and reducing his influence
first of all ethereum does not have enough full nodes and everybody is using online wallets and exchanges to keep their coins an other methods nobody is contributing to the network and that is your answer about the impact of number of nodes. if there were lots of nodes like what bitcoin has they couldn't have hard forked the coin this easily just the same way they can not fork bitcoin easily.
I don't know the impact of number of nodes on a network, but if Gavin based is opinion on Ethereum having more nodes than Bitcoin I don't think the fundamentals is solid enough, unless it is a personal attack on the Bitcoin core developers for dethroning and reducing his influence
It's purely because it's mined with GPUs. If it was still possible to mine Bitcoin with them there'd be thousands more Bitcoin nodes than there are these days.
i doubt that even miners are running full node.
most of them are doing pool mining and receiving their payment in their exchange address and dump just as fast.
Freaking Ethereum Wallet is still not stable after 20-30 releases...
In the last 2 weeks I had to delete/download the blockchain twice...
The chain got corrupted (a) standard Win7 memory maxed out and (b) standard Win7 power outage.
Ethereum Wallet is just not ready for prime time and ordinary users...
I've spent so much time fucking around with various ETH wallets in the past year that it's a joke....
Only the 1000% gains have made it worthwhile.
But still, if just one of their cool vapor-apps takes off... look out...
It's got the only cultish ecosystem to rival Bitcoin's...
And probably leads Bitcoin in terms of Devs on board...
(Ethereum + Solidity is a perfect combination for undergraduate college courses in blockchain or hackathons).