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Title: How many BitCoin Users are there? Post by: Fractality on February 03, 2011, 08:26:17 PM Hi,
just wondering if that can be inferred from the network? My client shows 106025 blocks, I suppose that is an upper limit (at least of the number of who people who actually own BitCoins?)? My oldest transaction shows 8444 confirmations - so there are that many nodes? But not every user is a node? Was trying to convince a friend to do a BitCoin based project, and he asked for this... Thanks Björn Title: Re: How many BitCoin Users are there? Post by: kiba on February 03, 2011, 08:27:48 PM just wondering if that can be inferred from the network? My client shows 106025 blocks, I suppose that is an upper limit (at least of the number of who people who actually own BitCoins?)? My oldest transaction shows 8444 confirmations - so there are that many nodes? But not every user is a node? 106025 is just how many blocks there are in the blockchain. Confirmations is merely how many blocks your transaction had been confirmed by the network. Title: Re: How many BitCoin Users are there? Post by: bitcool on February 03, 2011, 08:35:28 PM Confirmations is merely how many blocks your transaction had been confirmed by the network. I thought each client only confirms a transaction once, if it decides to confirm at all. so there are at minimal 8444 clients out there (one user may install multiple clients on different machine though). Am I wrong on this? Title: Re: How many BitCoin Users are there? Post by: Mahkul on February 03, 2011, 08:40:42 PM Confirmations is merely how many blocks your transaction had been confirmed by the network. I thought each client only confirms a transaction once, if it decides to confirm at all. so there are at minimal 8444 clients out there (one user may install multiple clients on different machine though). Am I wrong on this? The 8444 just means how many blocks have been generated since that transaction - it has nothing to do with the amount of users on the network. Title: Re: How many BitCoin Users are there? Post by: grondilu on February 03, 2011, 08:59:06 PM I doubt there is any way to know exactly how many bitcoin users there are.
However, using some statistics both about bitcoin users and the block chain, it should be possible to make an evaluation. For instance, we could make a poll about the number of bitcoin addresses people have in their wallet (with a non-zero balance). Then, by comparing the number of such addresses in the block chain, I guess we could make an extrapolation. Title: Re: How many BitCoin Users are there? Post by: Hal on February 03, 2011, 11:09:54 PM How about counting the number of people in #bitcoin? That should include almost everyone who's running the client at that moment. I'd like to see stats on how this number is changing.
Title: Re: How many BitCoin Users are there? Post by: grondilu on February 03, 2011, 11:16:30 PM How about counting the number of people in #bitcoin? That should include almost everyone who's running the client at that moment. I'd like to see stats on how this number is changing. I don't use bitcoin everyday and thus my client is not always running. I don't even have a permanent internet access. I doubt I'm the only one in that case. Thus I don't think the number of running clients is relevant. Title: Re: How many BitCoin Users are there? Post by: bencoder on February 04, 2011, 12:55:16 AM Probably the closest you'll get:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=https://smsz.net/btcStats/bitcoin.kml Of course, there's no way to know how many nodes belong to one person, nor how many aren't listed on the map. (from http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2346.0) Title: Re: How many BitCoin Users are there? Post by: Hal on February 04, 2011, 01:25:34 AM How many dots on that map? I lost count.
Title: Re: How many BitCoin Users are there? Post by: theymos on February 04, 2011, 01:43:51 AM Bitcointools has the ability to analyze your addr.dat, which should contain nearly every node in the network if your client has been running for a while.
Title: Re: How many BitCoin Users are there? Post by: Stephen Gornick on February 04, 2011, 05:26:24 AM Title: Re: How many BitCoin Users are there? Post by: mtgox on February 04, 2011, 01:59:44 PM sgornick: is that number of nodes online at that time? That is way more than I expected.
Title: Re: How many BitCoin Users are there? Post by: Cdecker on February 04, 2011, 02:41:36 PM According to my own measurement there are 321 clients accepting incoming connections online over the last 24 hours. No idea on how many NATed nodes are online.
Title: Re: How many BitCoin Users are there? Post by: The Madhatter on February 04, 2011, 07:04:49 PM *cough* *cough* The windows client needs UPnP. *cough* *cough*
Title: Re: How many BitCoin Users are there? Post by: Stephen Gornick on February 04, 2011, 07:52:34 PM is that number of nodes online at that time? I believe it might be the nodes seen over the previous 3 hours, per "update 2" here: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2346.0 (http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2346.0) |
