Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 056E41BB for ; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:39:12 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from pmx.vmail.no (pmx.vmail.no [193.75.16.11]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A9C11E for ; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:39:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pmx.vmail.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pmx.isp.as2116.net) with SMTP id 79F5C229F3 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:39:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.bluecom.no (smtp.bluecom.no [193.75.75.28]) by pmx.vmail.no (pmx.isp.as2116.net) with ESMTP id 4860F21E2F for ; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:39:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from coldstorage.localnet (unknown [81.191.185.32]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.bluecom.no (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A42EC2 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:39:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Zander To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:39:08 +0200 Message-ID: <2275059.uyAkQvreAU@coldstorage> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.1 (Linux/3.16.0-4-amd64; KDE/4.14.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or "If We Do Nothing" Analysis X-BeenThere: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Bitcoin Development Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:39:12 -0000 On Friday 24. July 2015 05.37.30 Slurms MacKenzie via bitcoin-dev wrote: > It's worth noting that even massive companies with $30M USD of funding don't > run a single Bitcoin Core node, I assume you mean that they don't have a Bitcoin Core node that is open to incoming connections. Since that is the only thing you can actually test, no? Most companies are still terrified of accepting incoming connections from the scary Internet. So I'm not entirely surprised by this conclusion. I would be very surprised if companies don't actually have a node at all. -- Thomas Zander