Number of nodes on the Feathercoin network
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Re: Number of nodes on the Feathercoin & Bitcoin networks.
I seen a couple of discussions on youtube mentioning the number of nodes on the Bitcoin network, being between 5000 to 7000 and needing to be more.
However, I look at the automatic list p2pool nodes
http://pool.maeh.org/ftc/p2pools/
which gives a list of the public p2pools for Feathercoin it shows Currently observing 2663 nodes, just p2pool.
Just wondering, as it highlights that security is a function of nodes, not just total hash rate. Plus the 7000 node figure for Bitcoin must be low?
What is a node?
From what I understand, from the discussion, a node is performed by an open full wallet. So, it is not just the mining software (feathercoind) that decides a block has been found. That’s pretty much how I understood it works from the code.
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well feathercoind is the non-QT version of the wallet, right?
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well feathercoind is the non-QT version of the wallet, right?
I’d say its more like feathercoin-qt includes the feathercoind server (daemon).
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I found this site documenting the number of Bitcoin nodes and where they are situated. From that I am supposing 2660 figure is the total number of Feathercoin nodes (from the p2pool stats), not just the number of p2pool nodes…
Bitnodes is currently being developed to estimate the size of the Bitcoin network by finding all the reachable nodes in the network.
About Bitnodes
Bitnodes is currently being developed to estimate the size of the Bitcoin network by finding all the reachable nodes in the network. The current methodology involves sending getaddr message recursively to find all the reachable nodes in the network starting from a set of seed nodes. Bitnodes uses Bitcoin protocol version 70001 (i.e. >= /Satoshi:0.7.x/), so nodes with older protocol version will be skipped. The crawler implementation in Python is available from GitHub (ayeowch/bitnodes) and the crawler deployment is documented in Provisioning Bitcoin Network Crawler.
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I see. the nodes connected to p2pool are only a part of the network, as p2pool has less than 50% of the hashrate.
Then you need to add the wallets without a miner, that do not show up in p2pool or any other pools address tables.
The network crawler is a better approach, but I think, the trick is to find a value when a node is defined as not in the network anymore.
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Re: The number of network nodes
I found this site that has already implemented a crawler:
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Good Node List ! Help us to find FTC place
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Re: The number of network nodes
I found this site that has already implemented a crawler:
HAHA
It’s listed my IP address in there, considering my wallet is only ever open for 5 or 10 minutes a day, it must of got lucky to get me when I was online.
URL filed away for future reference
