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I have launched a bitcoin node for public use. Just connect to bitcoinnode.pw.

I have 31 38 active connections to the network right now.

It has a working (but crappy) infopage.

Shit.

Now?

It is supposed to forward to my PC!

How about now?

I was also working on something like Ditto set up.

Check it now.

Yup it's working now


What is the idea behind this page? How would people use it?

It's just my node's front page.

Also, my node could be used to fall back on. I live in KS, so mass power outages are infrequent.

Very nice. I have been looking for this. Are you aware of any similar projects or is this the first. If so, I'd like to see it given a name with fresh [ANN] thread when ready.

I have been working planning on a similar bitcoin node.

Is there a lot of demand for this?

So far, I have a  SOHO router sitting behind a business-class Internet connection (with a domain pointing to it, even). I hope to set up a namecoin node DNS server and allow it to be accessed as a TOR hidden service (using a .bit domain name for look-up).

If there is not now, there probably will be.  I hope to see Android P2P & adhoc networks host the decentralized btc economy someday. Android & BTC are a match made in heaven as soon as the hardware catches up.

I don' get this , anyone with a bitcoin-qt is a  node right?

Yes, and bootstrapping uses DNS, so if you can resolve OP's address to connect to his bitcoind, you can also bootstrap regularly. ???

Nice idea nevertheless but nothing extraordinary, there are several thousand nodes around the world like this one.

Here are my 9 dedicated Bitcoin nodes, doing 150GB++ traffic per month per server

http://www.bitcoinmarketmaker.com/p/bitcoinmarketmaker-bitcoin-nodes.html

Wow thats a lot of traffic for nodes....

Here the stats from just one, som.bitcoinmarketmaker.com:

thisisnotmyusername@som:~# vnstat -d

 eth0  /  daily

         day         rx      |     tx      |    total    |   avg. rate
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
      05/21/13    607.61 MiB |   13.09 GiB |   13.69 GiB |    1.33 Mbit/s
      05/22/13    590.08 MiB |   10.41 GiB |   10.99 GiB |    1.07 Mbit/s
      05/23/13    581.25 MiB |    9.29 GiB |    9.86 GiB |  957.20 kbit/s
      05/24/13    484.15 MiB |    4.71 GiB |    5.19 GiB |  503.68 kbit/s
      05/25/13    446.56 MiB |    5.04 GiB |    5.47 GiB |  531.37 kbit/s
      05/26/13    468.81 MiB |    7.37 GiB |    7.83 GiB |  760.46 kbit/s
      05/27/13    413.35 MiB |    2.60 GiB |    3.00 GiB |  291.35 kbit/s
      05/28/13    440.22 MiB |    3.34 GiB |    3.77 GiB |  366.32 kbit/s
      05/29/13    459.61 MiB |    6.66 GiB |    7.11 GiB |  690.52 kbit/s
      05/30/13    604.45 MiB |    9.67 GiB |   10.26 GiB |  995.92 kbit/s
      05/31/13    611.86 MiB |    9.59 GiB |   10.19 GiB |  989.08 kbit/s
      06/01/13    723.39 MiB |    8.25 GiB |    8.96 GiB |  869.61 kbit/s
      06/02/13    453.71 MiB |    3.86 GiB |    4.31 GiB |  418.21 kbit/s
      06/03/13    619.49 MiB |    8.01 GiB |    8.61 GiB |  836.31 kbit/s
      06/04/13    603.70 MiB |    9.31 GiB |    9.90 GiB |  960.89 kbit/s
      06/05/13    675.19 MiB |   15.58 GiB |   16.24 GiB |    1.58 Mbit/s
      06/06/13    521.09 MiB |    6.18 GiB |    6.69 GiB |  649.50 kbit/s
      06/07/13    533.87 MiB |    7.05 GiB |    7.57 GiB |  734.82 kbit/s
      06/08/13    457.57 MiB |    4.69 GiB |    5.14 GiB |  498.95 kbit/s
      06/09/13    617.23 MiB |   10.37 GiB |   10.97 GiB |    1.06 Mbit/s
      06/10/13    553.53 MiB |    8.00 GiB |    8.54 GiB |  829.15 kbit/s
      06/11/13    565.70 MiB |    4.97 GiB |    5.52 GiB |  535.75 kbit/s
      06/12/13    491.61 MiB |    4.08 GiB |    4.56 GiB |  442.58 kbit/s
      06/13/13    413.05 MiB |    5.25 GiB |    5.66 GiB |  549.32 kbit/s
      06/14/13    389.87 MiB |    2.49 GiB |    2.87 GiB |  278.30 kbit/s
      06/15/13    397.79 MiB |    4.39 GiB |    4.78 GiB |  463.94 kbit/s
      06/16/13    385.75 MiB |    3.94 GiB |    4.32 GiB |  419.10 kbit/s
      06/17/13    525.57 MiB |    5.35 GiB |    5.86 GiB |  569.02 kbit/s
      06/18/13    472.77 MiB |    4.95 GiB |    5.41 GiB |  524.99 kbit/s
      06/19/13    264.16 MiB |    2.32 GiB |    2.58 GiB |  414.90 kbit/s
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
     estimated       437 MiB |    3.85 GiB |    4.27 GiB |

I corrected my post. With Namecoin+TOR, it is possible to have a DNS server with no public IP address.

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