Received: from sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.192] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-3.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UgkoX-0006D3-WD for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 26 May 2013 23:57:26 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from zinan.dashjr.org ([173.242.112.54]) by sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) id 1UgkoU-0004Hl-NH for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 26 May 2013 23:57:25 +0000 Received: from ishibashi.localnet (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:5:265:222:4dff:fe50:4c49]) (Authenticated sender: luke-jr) by zinan.dashjr.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 16EFF27A2965; Sun, 26 May 2013 23:57:17 +0000 (UTC) From: "Luke-Jr" To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 23:57:10 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.9.0-gentoo; KDE/4.10.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <20130516104809.82690@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key-Fingerprint: E463 A93F 5F31 17EE DE6C 7316 BD02 9424 21F4 889F X-PGP-Key-ID: BD02942421F4889F X-PGP-Keyserver: hkp://pgp.mit.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201305262357.12619.luke@dashjr.org> X-Spam-Score: -1.1 (-) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.1 RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain X-Headers-End: 1UgkoU-0004Hl-NH Cc: bitcoingrant@gmx.com Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Modularizing Bitcoin X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 23:57:26 -0000 On Thursday, May 16, 2013 10:55:44 AM Addy Yeow wrote: > Is the number representing the count for the client nodes? > > I was curious of the count myself earlier this week and started to > traverse down the network using getaddr message starting from seed > nodes and found upward to 57k nodes running protocol >= 70001 with > timestamp no older than 24 hours. This sounds accurate for listening nodes, and similar to what my own system counts: http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/security.html Of course, it doesn't include the (many?) connect-only nodes (eg, mobile or firewall/NAT'd) or non-p2p nodes (eg, Electrum). Luke