Quote from: tearodactyl on April 16, 2017, 03:12:33 PM

Quote from: zerodev2 on April 15, 2017, 05:18:26 PM

On the topic of the ZERO network, two things are apparent:
1. There are very few running ZERO nodes
2. Very few of those few ZERO nodes accept incoming connections
In fact my own node constantly has only one peer connected. The only node that (seems to) readily accepts connections is 35.164.216.74 (put up by the ZERO creator). In this condition the ZERO network is not really decentralized and resilient at all...
So let us try to fix this! I have started a ZERO node to the "benefit of the community" - IP 94.176.235.178 It accepts incoming connections. Everyone interested may add it to their config. file ~/.zero/zero.conf:
addnode=94.176.235.178
This node is based on the ZERO code-base at: https://github.com/zerodev2/zero
I would ask all those interested in having a strong ZERO network to either run a node that accepts connections or help me run this one (at least) The node costs approx 0.8 USD per day - at the current rate this is 5 ZER. All ZER contributions I receive to this ZERO address
t1L7TfvTQb9B78sLxH9cfx65aBVKfrFJMBQ
will be used to pay for the node... If enough people help with a few pennies - we can keep it running. This should be just a start - one extra node does not make a network ;-)

zerodev2, you are DA MAN!
Can you tell us how to check the state on the network, the number of running nodes, please?
And I'll be sure to leave a Zero node up and running as well.
Tearo

I have no tool to explore the network node numbers. I only tried to analyze how many nodes my node could connect to, and after discovering peers how many of them accepted connections (log shows connect failures). So what I wrote about the network was not 100% certain but it looks that way...