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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Why are we bleeding nodes?
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On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:34 AM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:
> At the start of February we had 10,000 bitcoin nodes. Now we have 8,500 and
> still falling:

FWIW, A few months before that we had even less than 8500 by the bitnodes count.

Bitcoin.org recommends people away from running Bitcoin-QT now, so I'm
not sure that we should generally find that trend surprising.