I'm a noob when it comes to mining.
What counts as a node in this situation where the software a node runs gets a vote in the big blocks/little blocks argument?
For the big blocks argument is a node a pool or is each miner connected to a pool counted as a node?
When I look at blockchain.info it's mostly the pools that show up as solving blocks, not the individual miners. Here's what it shows for the last few blocks.
F2Pool
AntPool
AntPool
Eligius
121.43.197.95
What counts as a node in this situation where the software a node runs gets a vote in the big blocks/little blocks argument?
For the big blocks argument is a node a pool or is each miner connected to a pool counted as a node?
When I look at blockchain.info it's mostly the pools that show up as solving blocks, not the individual miners. Here's what it shows for the last few blocks.
F2Pool
AntPool
AntPool
Eligius
121.43.197.95
This isn't entirely about mining. While miners are going to play a significant role if Gavin and Mike move on with their proposed fork, full nodes are clients running a bitcoin client with the full blockchain. Bitcoin XT will have a voting mechanism implemented inside it, that's why the number of nodes is significant. It shows how accepted Mike hearn's and Gavin Andresen's work is, as well as how likely it is for the blocksize increase to happen according to their terms. However, as of now I haven't seen any pools publicly stating they wouldn't or would support bitcoin XT. With the possible exception of BTC China's pool, since their exchange publicly stated that they don't support the block size increase.
Bitcoin XT nodes are outnumbered 45 to 1 by bitocoin core nodes. That's just one or two weeks before Gavin submits the block size increase update. Meanwhile bitcoin core nodes have even increased after Mike's statement on June 8th from ~5900 to ~6040 today.
Oh wait, I just realized that the submission of the block size increase update does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to the block size. This change will start tracking "votes" for the change in mined blocks. That's it.
So why not observe the votes in the meantime?