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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
To: bitcoingrant@gmx•com
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Why are we bleeding nodes?
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 10:42:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP2qRP3ayP5ognX4hz6JMG57A96NerX3+xBwi6WPcRcqiQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-1957ed0e-a607-47d7-803b-71c59af8eb89-1400573744536@3capp-mailcom-bs08>

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Yeah I'm expecting port 8333 to go away in China at some point. Actually I
was expecting that years ago and was kind of surprised that the suppression
was being done via banks. Guess the GFW operators were just slow to catch
up.
On 20 May 2014 10:16, <bitcoingrant@gmx•com> wrote:

> Recently China has updated its firewall blocking bitcoin sites and pools.
> Whether this is simple blacklist or more sophisticated packet targeting
> is uncertain, however this update did spefically target VPN handshakes.
>
>  *Sent:* Monday, April 07, 2014 at 1:07 PM
> *From:* Drak <drak@zikula•org>
> *To:* "Mike Hearn" <mike@plan99•net>
> *Cc:* "Bitcoin Dev" <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [Bitcoin-development] Why are we bleeding nodes?
>  For what it's worth, the number of nodes rose dramatically during the
> China bullrun (I recall 45k in China alone) and dropped as dramatically as
> the price after the first PBOC announcement designed to cool down bitcoin
> trading in China.
>
> On 7 April 2014 12:34, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net> wrote:
>>
>> At the start of February we had 10,000 bitcoin nodes. Now we have 8,500
>> and still falling:
>>
>>    http://getaddr.bitnodes.io/dashboard/chart/?days=60
>>
>> I know all the reasons why people *might* stop running a node (uses too
>> much disk space, bandwidth, lost interest etc). But does anyone have any
>> idea how we might get more insight into what's really going on? It'd be
>> convenient if the subVer contained the operating system, as then we could
>> tell if the bleed was mostly from desktops/laptops (Windows/Mac), which
>> would be expected, or from virtual servers (Linux), which would be more
>> concerning.
>>
>> When you set up a Tor node, you can add your email address to the config
>> file and the Tor project sends you emails from time to time about things
>> you should know about. If we did the same, we could have a little exit
>> survey: if your node disappears for long enough, we could email the
>> operator and ask why they stopped.
>>
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-20  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-07 11:34 Mike Hearn
2014-04-07 12:17 ` Ricardo Filipe
2014-04-07 13:43   ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-04-07 14:05     ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-07 14:15       ` Eric Martindale
2014-04-07 14:23         ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-07 19:46         ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-04-08  3:13         ` kjj
2014-04-08  7:50           ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-09 10:38         ` Wendell
2014-04-09 11:15           ` Wladimir
2014-04-07 14:45       ` Tom Harding
2014-04-07 12:19 ` Jameson Lopp
2014-04-07 12:26   ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-07 12:34     ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-07 12:34     ` Jameson Lopp
2014-05-20 18:38     ` Isidor Zeuner
2014-04-07 13:50 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 13:53   ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 13:58     ` Jameson Lopp
2014-04-07 14:04       ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-08 11:28   ` Jesus Cea
2014-04-07 15:45 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-04-07 15:53   ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 16:02     ` Jameson Lopp
2014-04-07 16:27     ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-07 16:57       ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 17:01         ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-07 17:16           ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 17:35             ` Brent Shambaugh
2014-04-07 17:40               ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-07 17:44                 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 17:45                 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-07 17:50                 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-04-07 18:30                   ` Arne Brutschy
2014-04-07 17:56                 ` Brent Shambaugh
2014-04-07 17:46             ` Justus Ranvier
2014-04-07 17:39     ` Chris Williams
2014-04-07 18:23       ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-07 18:35         ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-07 18:49           ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 19:00             ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-07 18:48               ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-07 19:02               ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 19:05                 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-07 19:03               ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 19:13                 ` Tier Nolan
2014-04-07 19:20                 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-07 19:13                   ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-07 19:36                     ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-07 21:46                     ` Ricardo Filipe
2014-04-07 19:30                   ` Paul Lyon
2014-04-07 19:50                     ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-07 21:48                       ` Tier Nolan
2014-04-07 21:56                         ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-08  3:44             ` Jeff Garzik
2014-04-08  7:24               ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2014-04-08  7:59               ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-08 17:18       ` Andrew LeCody
2014-04-07 17:07 ` Drak
2014-05-20  8:15   ` bitcoingrant
2014-05-20  8:42     ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2014-05-20 14:37     ` Eugen Leitl
2014-05-20 14:52       ` Gmail
2014-05-20 18:46         ` Andy Alness
2014-05-20 19:17           ` Jeff Garzik
2014-05-20 20:09             ` Andy Alness
2014-05-20 20:22               ` Jeff Garzik
2014-04-07 21:55 Paul Lyon
2014-04-07 22:14 ` Tier Nolan

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