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From: Felipe Micaroni Lalli <micaroni@walltime.info>
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Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 07:47:47 -0300
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To: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] About the small number of bitcoin nodes
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Is the small number of bitcoin nodes a concern? If yes, why? What kind =
of attack can the network suffer? And where can we find statistical =
information about the full nodes running?

I guess the only effective incentive to keep a node running would be =
financial. A kind of proof of stake would be nice on bitcoin. But I have =
no idea how to begin with.



Felipe Micaroni Lalli

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On 19/05/2014, at 07:39, Wladimir <laanwj@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Wladimir <laanwj@gmail.com> wrote:
>>=20
>> Some hacking with ncurses could quickly make a decent tool here. It
>> could be packaged with bitcoin itself but that's not necessary. For
>> example Tor has the tool 'arm' which is a separate package.
>=20
> Regarding tor-arm, here are some screenshots:
> https://www.atagar.com/arm/screenshots.php
>=20
> It shows, among other things:
> - bandwidth up/down graphs
> - CPU usage
> - debug logging (in real time)
> - connected peers+statistics
> - currently active configuration
>=20
> Would be nice to have a similar tool for bitcoind.
>=20
> Wladimir
>=20
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