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Title: How to figure out Number of nodes on custom BTC-based Blockchain?
Post by: spannbeton on July 18, 2017, 08:14:53 AM
Hello,

We have a custom Blockchain based on the original BTC one with some tweaks. Now how can I get the information how many nodes are currently supporting the network?



Title: Re: How to figure out Number of nodes on custom BTC-based Blockchain?
Post by: achow101 on July 18, 2017, 09:01:32 AM
You can't. The best you can do is to make a crawler to try to figure out what nodes are accepting incoming connections. You can't know about the nodes that only have outbound connections though.


Title: Re: How to figure out Number of nodes on custom BTC-based Blockchain?
Post by: spannbeton on July 18, 2017, 09:25:29 AM
Thanks for the reply.

Then how would I set up such a crawler?