On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 12:58 +0100, Andy Parkins wrote: > On 2011 August 05 Friday, Mike Hearn wrote: > > I don't really see that "number of connections" is the relevant metric. Number of connections is something that needs serious thought. Too many and you fill everyone's connection slots and no one can make connections. Too few and you don't have a network but just a bunch of islands which would also cause serious problems. If you aren't relaying, each connection takes almost no bandwidth, so the question is how many do you need to be considered secure.