The size of the Gridcoin Network
Motivation
Since I started with Gridcoin, I have always been interested in the question of how big the Gridcoin network actually is. More precisely, how many different nodes are there in the Gridcoin network and where are they geographically located?
Unfortunately, I could never find an answer to this question.
The number of nodes is important for the security of the Gridcoin network, especially since Gridcoin works with proof-of-stake.
Process
To finally answer this question I made some small source code adjustments to get all IP addresses of known nodes from the client that were online in the last 7 days.
Of course, these are only the nodes that my client knows and not necessarily all that exist. But I have added as many addnodes as possible to reach as many clients as possible.
I also used Maxmind's Geoip-Location Service to find out the approximate location of all nodes.
Results
My Gridcoin client knows 3470 different nodes that have been online in the last 7 days!
These are spread all over the world, as the pictures below show.
Gridcoin Nodes - World map
Gridcoin Nodes - Europa map
Gridcoin Nodes - America map
Conclusion
The Gridcoin network is very diverse and consists of nodes from many different countries! This shows the popularity Gridcoin enjoys with its followers and underlines the security of the network!
Would you be willing to open source the code you used to generate these maps? (If you already did, please link me instead)
I've been looking for a mapping utility like this for Gridcoin for a month or so now with no luck. Excellent work!
I can =) But at the moment it's an ugly mess...
I will work on it and then ping you =)
Great work grider123!
As suggestion, publish the open source here on Steemit under utopian-io to generate some extra rewards. ;)
I am happy to see my blue dot there :)
Very interesting results. Perhaps we should incorporate into the block explorer!
Thanks! Would be awesome if @sc-steemit could do this.
I work on integrating this to gridcoin.ch =)
Great job! You're not the only one who's interested in those data, but you've done it! Awesome!
Thanks! =D
@grider123 3400 nodes, well done.. I hope with BOINC and the power of Gridcoins members will solve many problems. Just like primecoin miners found new things as well.
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there's more blue around chicago than i expected! us chicago gridcoiners should do a meet up this summer