Timeline for how http://blockchain.info/, http://blockexplorer.com/q or http://www.bitcoinmonitor.com/ works
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| Jan 7, 2013 at 22:30 | vote | accept | Salvador Dali | ||
| Sep 21, 2012 at 18:18 | comment | added | David Schwartz | @SalvadorDali: You could just connect to a random set of nodes, but there's an advantage to connecting to the nodes closest to the large mining pools. You can find them by looking at which nodes tend to be first to announce a newly-found block. It doesn't matter that much so long as you are well connected as the mining pools are careful to keep themselves well connected too. | |
| Sep 21, 2012 at 0:48 | comment | added | Salvador Dali | So if for instance I want to create a service, similar to above mentioned, to what servers I have to connect. As far as I know all the information is stored in .dat files on the computer, where bitcoin is installed. | |
| Sep 21, 2012 at 0:12 | history | answered | David Schwartz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |