Received: from sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.193] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-2.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WX9zL-0003In-Sq for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 13:53:27 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.217.182 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.217.182; envelope-from=gmaxwell@gmail.com; helo=mail-lb0-f182.google.com; Received: from mail-lb0-f182.google.com ([209.85.217.182]) by sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1WX9zL-00006W-41 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 13:53:27 +0000 Received: by mail-lb0-f182.google.com with SMTP id n15so4720986lbi.41 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 06:53:20 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.131.34 with SMTP id oj2mr1694766lbb.43.1396878800433; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 06:53:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.89.68 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 06:53:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 06:53:20 -0700 Message-ID: From: Gregory Maxwell To: Mike Hearn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Spam-Score: 1.1 (+) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (gmaxwell[at]gmail.com) 1.2 RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET RBL: Received via a relay in bl.spamcop.net [Blocked - see ] -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature 1.5 SF_NO_SPF_SPAM SF_NO_SPF_SPAM X-Headers-End: 1WX9zL-00006W-41 Cc: Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Why are we bleeding nodes? 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: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 13:53:28 -0000 On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:50 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > FWIW, A few months before that we had even less than 8500 by the bitnodes count. Gah, accidentally send.... I wanted to continue here that it was less than 8500 and had been falling pretty consistently for months, basically since the bitcoin.org change. Unfortunately it looks like the old bitnodes.io data isn't available anymore, so I'm going off my memory here. The Bitnodes counts have always been somewhat higher than my or sipa's node counts too, fwiw.