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Re: How many nodes is enough?
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on 01/10/2015, 02:28:18 UTC
Quote from: Sir Alpha_goy on October 01, 2015, 02:17:49 AM
Lets take a snapshot in time of active nodes.

This is a list of the only coins available to check @ bitinfocharts.com

Bitcoin = 5008   https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/nodes-active/
Litecoin = 842   https://bitinfocharts.com/litecoin/nodes-active/
Dash = 3483 https://bitinfocharts.com/darkcoin/nodes-active/
Dogecoin = 521 https://bitinfocharts.com/dogecoin/nodes-active/
Peercoin = 207 https://bitinfocharts.com/ppcoin/nodes-active/
Namecoin = 203 https://bitinfocharts.com/namecoin/nodes-active/
Blackcoin = 75 https://bitinfocharts.com/blackcoin/nodes-active/
Novacoin = 95 https://bitinfocharts.com/novacoin/nodes-active/
Vertcoin = 62 https://bitinfocharts.com/vertcoin/nodes-active/
Worldcoin = 43 https://bitinfocharts.com/worldcoin/nodes-active/
Feathercoin = 74 https://bitinfocharts.com/feathercoin/nodes-active/
Megacoin = 35 https://bitinfocharts.com/megacoin/nodes-active/
Quarkcoin = 32 https://bitinfocharts.com/quarkcoin/nodes-active/
Vericoin = 1 https://bitinfocharts.com/vericoin/nodes-active/
Reddcoin = 94 https://bitinfocharts.com/reddcoin/nodes-active/
Zetacoin = 26 https://bitinfocharts.com/zetacoin/nodes-active/
Auroracoin = 25 https://bitinfocharts.com/auroracoin/nodes-active/

What can be said about this list?

First I would break it down by those that pay for nodes and those that don't. The ones that don't pay for nodes but still have a lot of nodes are pretty strong. That's BTC, LTC, and DOGE. The PoS coins are hard to assess, other than Dash (since the paid nodes are an identifiable subset). Dash has 3259 paid nodes. Even subtracting that, it still has around 200 volunteer nodes, which is decent.

NMC is a bit surprising to me. Would not really expect that to have 200 nodes.

Quote from:  gnargnar
you could go to https://bittrex.com/Status
you will find there the connections for each coins.

Seems to (incorrectly) show 0 for many coins that are not BTC forks.