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Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 20:55:44 +1000
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From: Addy Yeow <ayeowch@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Modularizing Bitcoin
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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.

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:48 PM,  <bitcoingrant@gmx.com> wrote:
> our estimates: ~8000
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> Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Modularizing Bitcoin
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>> Such developments would significantly strengthen the system.
>> Modularization would make cancer attacks less likely and increase the node
>> count, which, currently, is fairly low.
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> Do we know for certain or at least a rough figure of the node count in
> the network?
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