A) No, cause you don't have to mine if your running the node, plus we have pools so that skews the data.
B) The data their is only from FULL NODES connected to http://getaddr.bitnodes.io/'s node.
B) The data their is only from FULL NODES connected to http://getaddr.bitnodes.io/'s node.
A) Is there a reason for non-mining nodes to remain active on the network for a meaningful duration of time, say > 1 hr?
B) I thought the numbers seemed a little low, but their site seems to imply they are estimating the size of the entire network.
Per the page: http://getaddr.bitnodes.io/
"Bitnodes is currently being developed to estimate the size of the Bitcoin network by finding all the peering nodes in the network."
The crawler is actually connecting OUT instead of accepting incoming connection to capture all reachable nodes in the network.
Would other pools still be "invisible" to this crawler?
Thanks,
Mitch