Questions tagged [nodecount]

Has anyone done the math on this? For example, if we had 10’s of millions of nodes all connecting to 8 peers would there be some latency issues in propagating blocks across the network in the 10 minute block intervals?

I found out here that the number of total network hosts basically went down to 1/3 during the last year. Does this mean the network is less secure because fewer people run it despite the total hashing speed is still growing?

Modern clients broadcast the protocol version. A snapshot of the data summarizing the numbers per-client occasionally will appear, but I'm wondering if this info is published periodically or is otherwise publicly available on-demand.