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This change still reads somewhat ambiguous. Although clearly lightweight clients don't contain a full blockchain, some mining nodes do.
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Ed Eykholt 2014-08-02 09:43:52 -07:00
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The main bitcoin network, running the bitcoin P2P protocol, consists of between 7,000 to 10,000 nodes running various versions of the bitcoin reference client (Bitcoin Core) and a few hundred nodes running various other implementations of the bitcoin P2P protocol, such as BitcoinJ, Libbitcoin and btcd. A small percentage of the nodes on the bitcoin P2P network are also mining nodes, competing in the mining process, validating transactions and creating new blocks. Various large companies interface with the bitcoin network by running full-node clients based on the Bitcoin Core client, with full copies of the blockchain and a network node, but without mining or wallet functions. These nodes act as network edge routers, allowing various other services (exchanges, wallets, block explorers, merchant payment processing) to be built on top.
The extended bitcoin network includes the network running the bitcoin P2P protocol, described above, as well as nodes running specialized protocols. Attached to the main bitcoin P2P network are a number of pool servers and protocol gateways that connect nodes running other protocols. These other protocol nodes are mostly pool mining nodes (see <<mining>>) as well as lightweight wallet clients, which do not carry a full copy of the blockchain.
The extended bitcoin network includes the network running the bitcoin P2P protocol, described above, as well as nodes running specialized protocols. Attached to the main bitcoin P2P network are a number of pool servers and protocol gateways that connect nodes running other protocols. These other protocol nodes are mostly pool mining nodes (see <<mining>>) and lightweight wallet clients that do not carry a full copy of the blockchain.
The diagram below shows the extended bitcoin network with the various types of nodes, gateway servers, edge routers and wallet clients and the various protocols they use to connect to each other.