<p>The pool will typically appear as one node, though there's nothing stopping a business entity identifying as a pool to operate several nodes.</p>

<p>In any case, the miners in the pool will certainly not appear as nodes.</p>

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Meni Rosenfeld
<p>I'm guessing that it appears as a single node?  For example on <a href="http://getaddr.bitnodes.io/" rel="nofollow">http://getaddr.bitnodes.io/</a>?</p>

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Does a bitcoin pool appear as one node or multiple nodes to the rest of the network?
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# Does a bitcoin pool appear as one node or multiple nodes to the rest of the network?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-04-10)

I'm guessing that it appears as a single node? For example on <http://getaddr.bitnodes.io/>?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2014-04-10. Score: 1

The pool will typically appear as one node, though there's nothing stopping a business entity identifying as a pool to operate several nodes.

In any case, the miners in the pool will certainly not appear as nodes.


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