>> (p.1)
    Author Topic: How many BitCoin Users are there?  (Read 8770 times)

    • Fractality (OP)
    Newbie
    *
    Offline Offline

    Activity: 47
    Merit: 0



    View Profile WWW
    February 03, 2011, 08:26:17 PM
     #1
    Hi,

    just wondering if that can be inferred from the network? My client shows 106025 blocks, I suppose that is an upper limit (at least of the number of who people who actually own BitCoins?)? My oldest transaction shows 8444 confirmations - so there are that many nodes? But not every user is a node?

    Was trying to convince a friend to do a BitCoin based project, and he asked for this...

    Thanks


    Björn

  • kiba
    Legendary
    *
    Offline Offline

    Activity: 980
    Merit: 1029


    View Profile
    February 03, 2011, 08:27:48 PM
     #2
    Quote from: Fractality on February 03, 2011, 08:26:17 PM

    just wondering if that can be inferred from the network? My client shows 106025 blocks, I suppose that is an upper limit (at least of the number of who people who actually own BitCoins?)? My oldest transaction shows 8444 confirmations - so there are that many nodes? But not every user is a node?

    106025 is just how many blocks there are in the blockchain.

    Confirmations is merely how many blocks your transaction had been confirmed by the network.
    Bitcoin Weekly, bitcoin analysis and commentary

  • bitcool
    Legendary
    *
    Offline Offline

    Activity: 1441
    Merit: 1000

    Live and enjoy experiments


    View Profile
    February 03, 2011, 08:35:28 PM
     #3
    Quote from: kiba on February 03, 2011, 08:27:48 PM
    Confirmations is merely how many blocks your transaction had been confirmed by the network.
    I thought each client only confirms a transaction once, if it decides to confirm at all. so there are at minimal  8444 clients out there (one user may install multiple clients on different machine though). Am I wrong on this?

  • Mahkul
    Sr. Member
    ****
    Offline Offline

    Activity: 434
    Merit: 251


    Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future.


    View Profile
    February 03, 2011, 08:40:42 PM
     #4
    Quote from: bitcool on February 03, 2011, 08:35:28 PM
    Quote from: kiba on February 03, 2011, 08:27:48 PM
    Confirmations is merely how many blocks your transaction had been confirmed by the network.
    I thought each client only confirms a transaction once, if it decides to confirm at all. so there are at minimal  8444 clients out there (one user may install multiple clients on different machine though). Am I wrong on this?

    The 8444 just means how many blocks have been generated since that transaction - it has nothing to do with the amount of users on the network.

  • grondilu
    Legendary
    *
    Offline Offline

    Activity: 1288
    Merit: 1080


    View Profile
    February 03, 2011, 08:59:06 PM
     #5
    I doubt there is any way to know exactly how many bitcoin users there are.

    However, using some statistics both about bitcoin users and the block chain, it should be possible to make an evaluation.


    For instance, we could make a poll about the number of bitcoin addresses people have in their wallet (with a non-zero balance).  Then, by comparing the number of such addresses in the block chain, I guess we could make an extrapolation.
    Check out my bitcoin bash library

  • Hal
    VIP
    Sr. Member
    *
    Offline Offline

    Activity: 314
    Merit: 4515



    View Profile
    February 03, 2011, 11:09:54 PM
     #6
    How about counting the number of people in #bitcoin? That should include almost everyone who's running the client at that moment. I'd like to see stats on how this number is changing.
    Hal Finney

  • grondilu
    Legendary
    *
    Offline Offline

    Activity: 1288
    Merit: 1080


    View Profile
    February 03, 2011, 11:16:30 PM
     #7
    Quote from: Hal on February 03, 2011, 11:09:54 PM
    How about counting the number of people in #bitcoin? That should include almost everyone who's running the client at that moment. I'd like to see stats on how this number is changing.

    I don't use bitcoin everyday and thus my client is not always running.  I don't even have a permanent internet access.

    I doubt I'm the only one in that case.  Thus I don't think the number of running clients is relevant.
    Check out my bitcoin bash library

  • bencoder
    Member
    **
    Offline Offline

    Activity: 90
    Merit: 10


    View Profile
    February 04, 2011, 12:55:16 AM
     #8
    Probably the closest you'll get:
    http://maps.google.com/maps?q=https://smsz.net/btcStats/bitcoin.kml

    Of course, there's no way to know how many nodes belong to one person, nor how many aren't listed on the map.

    (from http://bt.irlbtc.com/view/2346.0)

  • Hal
    VIP
    Sr. Member
    *
    Offline Offline

    Activity: 314
    Merit: 4515



    View Profile
    February 04, 2011, 01:25:34 AM
     #9
    How many dots on that map? I lost count.
    Hal Finney

  • theymos
    Administrator
    Legendary
    *
    Offline Offline

    Activity: 5642
    Merit: 14438


    View Profile
    February 04, 2011, 01:43:51 AM
     #10
    Bitcointools has the ability to analyze your addr.dat, which should contain nearly every node in the network if your client has been running for a while.
    1NXYoJ5xU91Jp83XfVMHwwTUyZFK64BoAD

  • Stephen Gornick
    Legendary
    *
    Offline Offline

    Activity: 2506
    Merit: 1010


    View Profile
    February 04, 2011, 05:26:24 AM
     #11

    Unichange.me

                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █

  • mtgox
    Full Member
    ***
    Offline Offline

    Activity: 185
    Merit: 102


    View Profile WWW
    February 04, 2011, 01:59:44 PM
     #12
    sgornick: is that number of nodes online at that time? That is way more than I expected.
    Mt. Gox --- New 24/7 Bitcoin Exchange

    http://mtgox.com/code/tickerImage.php

  • Cdecker
    Hero Member
    *****
    Offline Offline

    Activity: 489
    Merit: 505



    View Profile WWW
    February 04, 2011, 02:41:36 PM
     #13
    According to my own measurement there are 321 clients accepting incoming connections online over the last 24 hours. No idea on how many NATed nodes are online.
    Want to see what developers are chatting about? http://bitcoinstats.com/irc/bitcoin-dev/logs/
    Bitcoin-OTC Rating

  • The Madhatter
    Hero Member
    *****
    Offline Offline

    Activity: 490
    Merit: 511


    My avatar pic says it all


    View Profile
    February 04, 2011, 07:04:49 PM
     #14
    *cough* *cough* The windows client needs UPnP. *cough* *cough*

  • Stephen Gornick
    Legendary
    *
    Offline Offline

    Activity: 2506
    Merit: 1010


    View Profile
    February 04, 2011, 07:52:34 PM
     #15
    Quote from: mtgox on February 04, 2011, 01:59:44 PM
    is that number of nodes online at that time?

    I believe it might be the nodes seen over the previous 3 hours, per "update 2" here:
      http://bt.irlbtc.com/view/2346.0
    Unichange.me

                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
                █
    Pages: [1]
      Print  
Page 1
Viewing Page: 1

IRLBTC™ © 2025 IRLBTC.com