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Quote from: benjamindees on October 15, 2012, 03:18:42 AM

Seems to be a definite bias towards cold climates. I wonder whether that will change with ASIC mining.

Eh, indeed, im in northern Canada, my mining rig heat my basement, specially in winter ! no more need to lit the fireplace Wink

I'm pretty surprised that Canada comes before US !!!

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Quote from: lile on October 15, 2012, 04:58:43 PM

Quote from: EuroTrash on October 15, 2012, 04:48:46 PM

Avout Slovenia, power prices are moderate but maybe there are some individuals that are heavily investing in bitcoins, whatever their purpose.

Probably an anomaly, it's such a small country.

Slovenia is home to bitstamp.net, at least.

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Quote from: EuroTrash on October 15, 2012, 04:48:46 PM

Canada I don't know?

Canada have the environment to be a wet dream for all miners. We have cheap electricity, awesome access to every computer part needed and the mining heat can be considered like a profit half of the year. We also have Virtex, an awesome exchange where you can buy BTC in usually less than 2 days by using direct transfer from bank account. I never saw any canadian complaining about buying/selling Bitcoins since it's so easy.

And overall, it's a well developed country and is similar to Finland and Sweden in many ways (it depends of the province though).

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Quote from: EuroTrash on October 15, 2012, 04:48:46 PM

Avout Slovenia, power prices are moderate but maybe there are some individuals that are heavily investing in bitcoins, whatever their purpose.

Probably an anomaly, it's such a small country.

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Quote from: Brunic on October 14, 2012, 04:16:47 PM

Top 5 is:
-Finland
-Island
-Slovenia
-Sweden
-Canada

For what concerns Finland and Sweden, I think it's due to the quality of internet literacy and their education to democracy, as well as the purchasing power of citizens: average salaries are very high so I'd say they can afford buying GPUs for fun - or maybe for home heating Grin

Same could be said for Iceland, and on top of that the price of electrical power supply are ridiculously low over there, thanks to geothermal power plants.

Avout Slovenia, power prices are moderate but maybe there are some individuals that are heavily investing in bitcoins, whatever their purpose.
Canada I don't know?

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Personally, I think it's even less than 200.000. If only 10% of all users would run a full node, it would be about 40.000 BTC Users. Nuber of total Nodes connected = 4337.

Source http://bitcoinstatus.rowit.co.uk/ --> some nice stats there.

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Quote from: ercolinux on October 15, 2012, 04:11:39 AM

Something is strange with that numbers Undecided

Bitcoin magazine claim near 1 milion of bitcoin users (is 0,01% of the whole word population or 40 every 100000 intenet user). There'll be at least 1000 shops (from bitpay alone) accepting bitcoins and this is 0.04 over 100.000 internet user. From the source of your data, if the numbers are correct, there are only 16500 nodes in the whole world. I think that some node is not properly counted for some reason Undecided

Number of nodes is much lower than number of users, they should not be compared. Also, 1 million is probably very optimistic number, my guess is much lower (200k).

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Quote from: ercolinux on October 15, 2012, 10:53:39 AM

I think that there is some problem with the nodes showed: I've 2 active nodes from 2 different IP but neither shows in the list
http://blockchain.info/connected-nodes

I, too, wondered about that earlier, but on the page it does say "List of nodes blockchain.info is connected to", which admittedly does not imply "List of all nodes", so that's probably the explanation.

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Quote from: knight22 on October 15, 2012, 10:05:13 AM

Here some other references on the same topic. Not very accurate but it gives a good idea

http://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions
http://blockchain.info/nodes-globe

I think that there is some problem with the nodes showed: I've 2 active nodes from 2 different IP but neither shows in the list
http://blockchain.info/connected-nodes

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Hmm... I would have thought that the US had more nodes. Thank you for this thread, very en-lighting.

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Here some other references on the same topic. Not very accurate but it gives a good idea

http://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions
http://blockchain.info/nodes-globe

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The revolution will be monetized!

That's cool. Thanks for posting. It looks like it has caught on in countries where one can heat there home while mining. Grin

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Great idea! For those wondering about where the data came from, discussion is in this thread: adoption by country: nodes per capita.

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Quote from: nave on October 15, 2012, 08:17:27 AM

Quote from: ercolinux on October 15, 2012, 04:11:39 AM

Something is strange with that numbers Undecided

Bitcoin magazine claim near 1 milion of bitcoin users (is 0,01% of the whole word population or 40 every 100000 intenet user). There'll be at least 1000 shops (from bitpay alone) accepting bitcoins and this is 0.04 over 100.000 internet user. From the source of your data, if the numbers are correct, there are only 16500 nodes in the whole world. I think that some node is not properly counted for some reason Undecided

This isn't really surprising. I would assume a majority of more casual users don't run nodes but have a web wallet of some sort, thereby not showing up in these statistics.

Has to be, I feel like more than 6000 people in the USA are involved in BTC. Maybe not though?

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Quote from: benjamindees on October 15, 2012, 03:18:42 AM

Seems to be a definite bias towards cold climates. I wonder whether that will change with ASIC mining.

Top 5 is:
-Finland
-Island
-Slovenia
-Sweden
-Canada

mmm could it have something to do with the ratio of population relative to the number of internet connections in that country?
poplation vs internet use becours these countries are widespread with low population i,m just guessing.. Huh

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Quote from: ercolinux on October 15, 2012, 04:11:39 AM

Something is strange with that numbers Undecided

Bitcoin magazine claim near 1 milion of bitcoin users (is 0,01% of the whole word population or 40 every 100000 intenet user). There'll be at least 1000 shops (from bitpay alone) accepting bitcoins and this is 0.04 over 100.000 internet user. From the source of your data, if the numbers are correct, there are only 16500 nodes in the whole world. I think that some node is not properly counted for some reason Undecided

This isn't really surprising. I would assume a majority of more casual users don't run nodes but have a web wallet of some sort, thereby not showing up in these statistics.

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Finland's position comes as no surprise; here's a recent news clip from Finnish television (with English subtitles) regarding Bitcoin uptake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vYH1JH73pw

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Bitcoin has made considerable progress in Finland in the past few months, with a veggie burger restaurant chain, a dentist office, a funeral service, soon a movie theater, and many others accepting Bitcoin in Finland.

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Not really surprising countries imo. Nordic countries + several english speaking countries and a couple of other active european countries.

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Something is strange with that numbers Undecided

Bitcoin magazine claim near 1 milion of bitcoin users (is 0,01% of the whole word population or 40 every 100000 intenet user). There'll be at least 1000 shops (from bitpay alone) accepting bitcoins and this is 0.04 over 100.000 internet user. From the source of your data, if the numbers are correct, there are only 16500 nodes in the whole world. I think that some node is not properly counted for some reason Undecided

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Seems to be a definite bias towards cold climates. I wonder whether that will change with ASIC mining.

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