Quote from: adoni on July 27, 2014, 02:42:25 AM

can you show a site with more nodes than that

blockchain have only 400 or so nodes on their network

Thats only the nodes that Blockchain's node is connected to right now, and its limited to max 500 at a time. They can only monitor 500 at a time which is why like I said it's difficult to monitor every node, even for someone as big as blockchain.

Quote from: adoni on July 27, 2014, 02:42:25 AM

that's how numbers work

I tried to read your explanation but I got a headache, your writing style isn't the easiest to digest...

Quote from: adoni on July 27, 2014, 02:42:25 AM

almost 8K nodes and they show 40%+ usa yet franky was no way that's WRONG

now you're saying yeah it's right but you think 8K nodies is off

personally it sounds right to me, 8K full core servers doing mining

Not all nodes are miners. None of my 6 nodes mine. Many websites and services need to run full nodes too. Nodes are run by merchants and pools, things like that, not miners or people by in large.

Quote from: adoni on July 27, 2014, 02:42:25 AM

8K is the core user base IMO and that's the group getting the mining done

There is definitely more than 8,000 I can promise you that...

Quote from: adoni on July 27, 2014, 02:42:25 AM

now if you have a site with way more nodes show it

It's not easy or cheap to get the IP of every node. Back in 2011 when there was very little Bitcoin users there was a site that listed 10,000 nodes, I forget where it is or if it still exists. But even if you look at the amount of downloads for bitcoin-core or the bootstrap.dat torrent on a daily basis, you can see there must be way more than 8,000 nodes out there.

I would love to try and count all the nodes using ZMap, maybe one day when I have time and spare money for a powerful enough server I'll do it. Even then though I would only be able to count those listening.