j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM<div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661.msg7072#msg7072">Quote from: knightmb on August 02, 2010, 06:11:57 PM</a></div><div class="quote"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661.msg7071#msg7071">Quote from: throughput on August 02, 2010, 06:07:08 PM</a></div><div class="quote">But is there a way to monitor that number at all?<br/>If not, it would be wise to add some feature to the standard, which will<br/>allow to determine in real time what is the number of distinct nodes running.<br/></div><br/>Maybe not official, but I compile my own BitCoind to run unlimited connections (well, in theory I set the limit for 65535)<br/><br/>As of now, I have about 7,100 connections going, so I would assume *at least* that many nodes are out there now.<br/></div><br/>But there may be others, who have their connections limit in effect, so they refuse to accept your connections and do not<br/>connect to you by themselves. Still being connected to the network.<br/><br/>This is a task of counting distinct nodes in a graph. Too bad. <img alt="Sad" border="0" src="/static/img/emoticons/sad.gif"/></div> text/html
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