Preliminary data suggests that
the number of nodes running Bitcoin Classic is on the rise.
Not exact matches
The company itself is
running nine Stellar
nodes that help confirm those transactions based in locations around the world, such as Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong and the U.S.. However, going forward, IBM is open to working with any
number of blockchains.
Remarkably, Ethereum versions (prior to Geth v1.8.1) allowed a user to
run an unlimited
number of nodes, each with a different public key, from the same machine with the same IP address.
Making full
nodes more difficult to
run would further limit the
number of people that can verify transactions themselves.
It allowed for the
number of nodes to vote to change while the system was
running.
However, that «try it yourself» approach may not be sufficient if, say, the network is
running on a small
number of nodes manually controlled by the development team, with a promise to eventually take off the training wheels.
If you
run the miner in the geth console with miner.start as described in the last post, you'll see a little mining icon in the bottom left corner
of the screen and the
number of connected
nodes (the people icon) will say «1», as it will detect your
node.
There have also been a
number of other efficiency improvements to the current infrastructure that will make it easier for miners to
run nodes.
Currently, according to NodeCounter, the total
number of available
nodes running Bitcoin Unlimited remains at 668.
If Bitcoin does fail to scale then the end result will be a smaller
number of full
nodes but lots
of people using the system — this is still better than Bitcoin being deliberately crippled so it never gets popular because even if the
number of full
nodes collapses down to less than 1000, unknown future advances in technology might make it cheap enough for everyone to
run a full
node again.»