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malevolent

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Quote from: muyuu on February 02, 2012, 06:35:13 PM

Quote from: fornit on February 02, 2012, 04:25:03 PM

Quote from: muyuu on February 02, 2012, 02:04:34 PM

It's completely reasonable that the number of nodes steadily decreases as only up-to-date rigs are anywhere near profitable.
Bitcoiners can usually do some numbers, and even when they can't it becomes obvious at some point that it's not worth it to keep your old rig mining.

cool story bro except this counts nodes not miners Tongue

I understand in early times all users were both. So there is a progression to nodes vs miners with fewer nodes, and also more thin clients. I wasn't around, but I thought this was the case. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Not necessarily all users. The default client had an in-built mining option but not everyone was willing to run it non-stop when bitcoins where worthless (especially laptop users would get easily discouraged after noticing the extra heat).

weex

legendary

Activity: 1102

Merit: 1014

I would also be interested to help make a Litecoin version of this as well as get the Bitcoin version running more smoothly.

Simon Barber

newbie

Activity: 56

Merit: 0

These stats have stopped updating. Any chance of reviving them? I can take over maintenance of the code if necessary.

lucb1e

newbie

Activity: 47

Merit: 0

Are these stats still functional? It would appear there are much less hosts than a year ago, but I read that since v0.6 it doesn't automatically connect to IRC anymore or something... Perhaps this is how the stats worked, and only some people run an old version? The website doesn't seem to suggest that's how the stats work, but still I wonder if btc is loosing users (and loosing masses, or so it would appear).

Edit: Oh, read the post above me now ^^

Quote from: gmaxwell on May 20, 2012, 01:37:56 AM

Note, the estimates of bitcoin client are now ~worthless

gmaxwell

staff

Activity: 4284

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Quote from: ThePok on May 19, 2012, 04:57:40 PM

downtrend seems to be stopped

They fixed some problems the system was having, so the data looks more sane now but not completely sane.

Note, the estimates of bitcoin client are now ~worthless: A few versions ago I changed the reference client to not advertise itself unless it was listening and knew its public IP... so it's expected that that count should go way down.

ThePok

full member

Activity: 131

Merit: 100

downtrend seems to be stopped

nibor

sr. member

Activity: 438

Merit: 291

I have a client running that connects to all the nodes on the network every 24hours and gets a version message from them.
Client is java using bitcoinj.

Specific class for this is:
http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/source/browse/src/com/google/bitcoin/core/VersionMessage.java

Red Emerald

hero member

Activity: 742

Merit: 500

http://bitcoinstatus.rowit.co.uk/versions.html

How are you getting the versions of all the nodes? I'm wanting to write a small script to connect to all of the nodes listed at https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Fallback_Nodes#Tor_nodes and get their version.

I started tinkering with libbitcoin, but it's alpha. Since you wrote this site long before that code was around, I'm curious how you are doing it.

Also, where is version 502? And I don't think "other" is working since it's showing zero.

gmaxwell

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Quote from: nibor on September 12, 2011, 05:46:09 AM

for example the number of hosts,

It's worth mentioning that the (non-listening) nodes figures will probably drop substantially as the result of some new node behavior.

First, there are the announcement changes where nodes which aren't listening or arn't current with the block-chain will not announce their addresses to the network.

Second, the stochastic address manager will likely reduce the propagation of unreachable nodes so that old and never working addresses will probably disappear faster rather than circulating through the network like undead zombies.

Some of this may be counterbalanced by UPNP fixes increasing listening nodes, but this fix needs testers and isn't yet even in the pipeline for upstream until it gets some.

fornit

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not to my knowledge, no.

muyuu

donator

Activity: 980

Merit: 1000

Quote from: fornit on February 02, 2012, 09:50:40 PM

most likely wrong. the transition from solo to pooled mining was mostly over when these statistics began.
i think the market share of the other clients is still pretty small though it might have some effect on the statistics. imho best explanation for the decrease in nodes is that the big media attention last summer brought many new users that were only superficially interested in bitcoin but installed the client with run on startup enabled. many lost interest quickly and are now actively uninstalling or more like just switching/reinstalling operating systems and dont bother installing bitcoin again because they never really used it in the first place.

Are there any older stats on number of nodes available?

fornit

hero member

Activity: 991

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most likely wrong. the transition from solo to pooled mining was mostly over when these statistics began.
i think the market share of the other clients is still pretty small though it might have some effect on the statistics. imho best explanation for the decrease in nodes is that the big media attention last summer brought many new users that were only superficially interested in bitcoin but installed the client with run on startup enabled. many lost interest quickly and are now actively uninstalling or more like just switching/reinstalling operating systems and dont bother installing bitcoin again because they never really used it in the first place.

muyuu

donator

Activity: 980

Merit: 1000

Quote from: fornit on February 02, 2012, 04:25:03 PM

Quote from: muyuu on February 02, 2012, 02:04:34 PM

It's completely reasonable that the number of nodes steadily decreases as only up-to-date rigs are anywhere near profitable.

Bitcoiners can usually do some numbers, and even when they can't it becomes obvious at some point that it's not worth it to keep your old rig mining.

cool story bro except this counts nodes not miners Tongue

I understand in early times all users were both. So there is a progression to nodes vs miners with fewer nodes, and also more thin clients. I wasn't around, but I thought this was the case. Correct me if I'm wrong.

nibor

sr. member

Activity: 438

Merit: 291

It counts full clients (i.e. the official C++ version).

It can not count the various Android/Java (bitspinner, multibit etc..) clients that do not transmit address messages.

fornit

hero member

Activity: 991

Merit: 1011

Quote from: muyuu on February 02, 2012, 02:04:34 PM

It's completely reasonable that the number of nodes steadily decreases as only up-to-date rigs are anywhere near profitable.

Bitcoiners can usually do some numbers, and even when they can't it becomes obvious at some point that it's not worth it to keep your old rig mining.

cool story bro except this counts nodes not miners Tongue

muyuu

donator

Activity: 980

Merit: 1000

It's completely reasonable that the number of nodes steadily decreases as only up-to-date rigs are anywhere near profitable.

Bitcoiners can usually do some numbers, and even when they can't it becomes obvious at some point that it's not worth it to keep your old rig mining.

finway

hero member

Activity: 714

Merit: 500

Scale is a problem.

Simon Barber

newbie

Activity: 56

Merit: 0

Looks like the stat gathering has stopped again - anything to do to help keep it running? I can offer to host something and maintain it if necessary.

nibor

sr. member

Activity: 438

Merit: 291

Just gone off EC2 micro edition! I think something went wrong with the blockchain on the server and it was trying to do some big re-org or something. Net result was that it hit the limit of the micro-edition cpu and was throttled to 2% of its normal power! Net result of this was it all locked up and no matter how many times I restarted it would not fix itself. In end deleted block chain, redownloaded and all was fine.

Need to find a different host. Anyone got any ideas?

Requirements:
1) about £10 a month
2) Min 512Meg Ram (more would be nice)

Do not mind if it reboots or gets restarted on occasion as am not running a 24-7 service!

Suggestions were:
http://www.giga-international.com/?show=vserver
Some bad review though, and looks too cheap to be true! Also do not like the set-up fees feel it is a bit of a con?

http://www.cheapvps.co.uk/plans-openvz.php
£84 for a year looks a great deal.

EhVedadoOAnonimato

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And it seems the operators of that database aren't sure either. From their FAQ:

Quote

What does the Country code EU (European Union) mean?
The IP to country information in the database is provided 'as is' from the various registry sources. In some cases a country is only given as 'EU' which means it can be anywhere within the European union.

Maybe if you just move all EU IPs to Others, or change the description to "Unknown European Union" or something it would avoid confusions.

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