Whois & Analysis for bitnodes.io

The bitcoin network is a peer-to-peer payment network that operates on a cryptographic protocol.

Users send and receive bitcoins, the units of currency, by broadcasting digitally signed messages to the network using bitcoin wallet software.

Transactions are recorded into a distributed, replicated public database known as the blockchain, with consensus achieved by a proof-of-work system called "mining".

The protocol was designed in 2008 and released in 2009 as open source software by "Satoshi Nakamoto", the name or pseudonym of the original developer/developer group.

In communication networks, a node (Latin nodus, ‘knot’) is either a redistribution point (e.g. data communications equipment), or a communication endpoint (e.g. data terminal equipment).

The definition of a node depends on the network and protocol layer referred to.

A physical network node is an active electronic device that is attached to a network, and is capable of creating, receiving, or transmitting information over a communications channel.

A passive distribution point such as a distribution frame or patch panel is consequently not a node.

Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems.

A distributed system is a model in which components located on networked computers communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages.

The components interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal.

Three significant characteristics of distributed systems are: concurrency of components, lack of a global clock, and independent failure of components.

Examples of distributed systems vary from SOA-based systems to massively multiplayer online games to peer-to-peer applications.

In mathematics, and more specifically in graph theory, a graph is a structure amounting to a set of objects in which some pairs of the objects are in some sense "related".

The objects correspond to mathematical abstractions called vertices (also called nodes or points) and each of the related pairs of vertices is called an edge (also called an arc or line).

Typically, a graph is depicted in diagrammatic form as a set of dots for the vertices, joined by lines or curves for the edges.

Graphs are one of the objects of study in discrete mathematics.