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nibor (OP)
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September 12, 2011, 10:46:09 AM |
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We have just launched a new website that monitors the health and status of the Bitcoin P2P network. There are an assortment of charts that show for example the number of hosts, messages per hour etc.. over time. We are collecting statistics on 10 metrics at the moment and have plans to add to them. We have only been collecting data for a few days, but over time it will become a valuable tool. Website is at: http://bitcoinstatus.rowit.co.ukAny comments welcome. Thanks RowIT Ltd. Examples of charts are:   |
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GideonGono
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September 12, 2011, 12:39:50 PM |
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great job!
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Cryptoman
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September 13, 2011, 06:12:11 AM |
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Wow, 60k nodes. Thanks for putting up the site. Nice job.
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GideonGono
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September 13, 2011, 11:38:57 AM |
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Does a mining rig count as a node? Also if there are multiple bitcoiners in a household where they share an IP does that show up as one or multiple nodes?
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nibor (OP)
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September 13, 2011, 11:43:25 AM |
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Whether mining rigs show up is determined by whether they are running a bitcoin client that is connected to the main p2p network. If they are then it will if not it will not.
If you have multiple clients behind one NAT router they will show up as one in my stats.
Thanks for the interest. Will be interesting in a few months time to see how the charts trend and whether the number of hosts and the exchange rate have any correlation!
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Bert
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September 13, 2011, 11:50:56 AM
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Very nice. Now all that is needed is an IP map like http://nsa.unaligned.org/ or http://xkcd.com/195/EDIT: Actually you kind of have that covered by the country graphs. Great stuff, will be very interesting to watch over the coming months and years. Sent a donation. |
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September 13, 2011, 11:58:06 AM |
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cool stuff!
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September 13, 2011, 09:56:18 PM |
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Thanks for the much needed metrics! It will be interesting and fun to watch them grow over time.
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September 13, 2011, 10:10:17 PM |
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Clark
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September 13, 2011, 10:30:54 PM |
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These graphs are great! Keep up the good work.
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fornit
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September 13, 2011, 11:34:09 PM |
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nice!
can you aggregate the data for the countries?
the graph is barely readable and the big "other" is a little ackward.
how about continents? or at least join countries into somewhat bigger entities.
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nibor (OP)
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September 13, 2011, 11:56:35 PM |
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Yes a big difference. What I did notice was reading the wiki entry it says: It represent the total number of unique IPs seen within the last 3 hours on the network.
This would explain it as hosts only transmit their address every 24 hours. However in reality it is a lot more often than that as they are relayed, hosts stop and start etc... So monitoring over a 3 hour window instead of the 24 hour that we do could easily explain the difference. But as it is a decentralised network nobody can be totally sure who is right! |
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September 14, 2011, 05:09:31 AM |
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Wow, great charts.
I have a few questions:
How close do you think the total 60k hosts is to the actual number of hosts. Is it even possible to be certain that you counted the vast majority (ie. 99%) of active hosts?
In the chart depicting the number of hosts in each country, you list "other" as a category. Does this category of around 10,500 hosts consist of other countries and unknown locations or just other countries?
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nibor (OP)
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September 14, 2011, 07:59:08 AM |
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I think that the chances are these charts are overestimates of number of hosts rather than underestimates. We did a simulation of the whole network to prove that the methodology was correct: https://github.com/n1bor/bitcoin-simulationBut if someone downloads the client, runs it for 5 mins then loses interest and shuts it down we will count them as a host for the following 24 hours. For the estimate of the number of hosts that are listening though these charts underestimate. As by default hosts are limited to 125 connections, and when that is full they will not accept any more. As such in the total of listening hosts we will not include them once they reach the 125 as we can not connect. Currently if you leave a host running it seems to reach 125 connections after about 1 week - not sure what to conclude from this though. Regarding the "other" countries these are just a long list of other countries. When I get a chance I will add a table to the site that lists them all and their last number of hosts connected. |
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September 15, 2011, 10:32:23 AM |
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I recently created this chart https://i.imgur.com/sotmB.png (y: seconds, x: blocks) Maybe it's something you could add to your site? It might be useful to detect irregular timestamps. |
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nibor (OP)
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September 15, 2011, 10:14:16 PM |
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Just added the full list of hosts by country to the bottom of the front page. Makes interesting reading.
Country Number of Hosts
United States 17590
Russian Federation 4805
Ukraine 3799
Germany 3601
Poland 3163
Canada 2425
United Kingdom 2401
Australia 1364
Netherlands 1160
China 1075
Belarus 1064
Romania 973
Sweden 889
European Union 839
Czech Republic 670
France 646
Malaysia 615
Brazil 600
Thailand 551
Bulgaria 551
Spain 529
Finland 525
Serbia 457
Bosnia and Herzegowina 416
Argentina 384
Italy 382
Hungary 370
Austria 358
Switzerland 309
Ireland 296
India 291
Belgium 282
Lithuania 280
Denmark 279
Norway 279
New Zealand 275
Macedonia 269
Israel 265
Portugal 259
South Africa 238
Mexico 229
Croatia (LOCAL Name: Hrvatska) 204
Slovenia 188
Singapore 178
Georgia 168
Philippines 151
Greece 143
Colombia 138
Slovakia (SLOVAK Republic) 119
Japan 116
Chile 114
Moldova Republic of 111
Viet Nam 105
Montenegro 102
Taiwan; Republic of China (ROC) 99
Estonia 98
Kazakhstan 97
Hong Kong 93
Latvia 86
Trinidad and Tobago 67
Turkey 65
Venezuela 61
Armenia 52
Korea Republic of 49
Mongolia 41
Cyprus 38
Saudi Arabia 36
Indonesia 35
Morocco 34
Iceland 31
Luxembourg 30
Saint Vincent and The Grenadines 28
Sri Lanka 25
Uruguay 19
Egypt 18
Paraguay 17
Jamaica 16
Bangladesh 15
Ecuador 13
Puerto Rico 12
Kyrgyzstan 11
Pakistan 10
Antigua and Barbuda 9
Lebanon 8
Bahrain 7
El Salvador 6
Maldives 5
Tanzania United Republic of 4
Barbados 3
Cape Verde 2
Afghanistan 1
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September 19, 2011, 10:49:24 PM |
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Great site! Never take it down!  |
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September 23, 2011, 11:36:47 PM |
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It might be really interesting to see "number of hosts per capita" for each country.
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September 24, 2011, 03:46:53 PM |
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I'd be very interested in some statistics on how long it takes transactions and blocks to propagate across the bitcoin network. Could you collect some data on these times? I.E. Measure when you receive a particular tx or block from different nodes, and track something like the 95% percentile of the delay.
Having good data on this (especially for blocks) is relevant to any discussion of changing the blocktime to less than the current 10 minutes.
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