From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-3.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WX9x0-0001IC-9P for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 13:51:02 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.217.169 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.217.169; envelope-from=gmaxwell@gmail.com; helo=mail-lb0-f169.google.com; Received: from mail-lb0-f169.google.com ([209.85.217.169]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1WX9wz-0003vV-Hp for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 13:51:02 +0000 Received: by mail-lb0-f169.google.com with SMTP id q8so4904372lbi.28 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 06:50:54 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.49.197 with SMTP id w5mr155743lbn.65.1396878654784; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 06:50:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.89.68 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 06:50:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 06:50:54 -0700 Message-ID: From: Gregory Maxwell To: Mike Hearn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Spam-Score: 1.1 (+) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (gmaxwell[at]gmail.com) 1.2 RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET RBL: Received via a relay in bl.spamcop.net [Blocked - see ] -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature 1.5 SF_NO_SPF_SPAM SF_NO_SPF_SPAM X-Headers-End: 1WX9wz-0003vV-Hp Cc: Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Why are we bleeding nodes? X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 13:51:02 -0000 On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:34 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: > At the start of February we had 10,000 bitcoin nodes. Now we have 8,500 and > still falling: FWIW, A few months before that we had even less than 8500 by the bitnodes count. Bitcoin.org recommends people away from running Bitcoin-QT now, so I'm not sure that we should generally find that trend surprising.