@daWallet It's normally about half that, but with the price hikes, and the rate new users and miners are coming on board, I guess it's possible.
Edit: currently just over 25,000 connections.
Edit 2: Now at 38,000 connections, these are just some of the firewall log messages for the last 5 minutes:
14:54:57 Jun 24 1371 Firewall Settings Warning Possible TCP Flood on IF X1 - src: 67.84.148.239:65409 dst: 216.165.179.43:8080 - rate: 234/sec continues
14:54:56 Jun 24 1369 Firewall Settings Alert Possible TCP Flood on IF X1 - src: 84.111.139.107:61906 dst: 216.165.179.45:8124
14:54:55 Jun 24 866 Firewall Settings Warning Possible SYN Flood on IF X1 - src: 96.67.14.150:51653 dst: 216.165.179.44:8128 - rate: 216/sec continues
14:54:14 Jun 24 859 Firewall Settings Alert Possible SYN flood detected on WAN IF X1 with a rate of 201 SYNs/sec - switching to connection-proxy mode
14:54:14 Jun 24 860 Firewall Settings Alert Possible SYN Flood on IF X1 - src: 67.184.19.44:63547 dst: 216.165.179.45:8124
14:53:57 Jun 24 1370 Firewall Settings Alert Possible TCP Flood on IF X1 - from machine xx:xx:02:52:1d:4c with TCP packet rate of 154/sec has ceased
14:53:56 Jun 24 1371 Firewall Settings Warning Possible TCP Flood on IF X1 - src: 87.145.245.239:57585 dst: 216.165.179.43:8124 - rate: 247/sec continues
14:53:55 Jun 24 1369 Firewall Settings Alert Possible TCP Flood on IF X1 - src: 128.76.228.189:51819 dst: 216.165.179.43:8124
14:52:51 Jun 24 1371 Firewall Settings Warning Possible TCP Flood on IF X1 - src: 208.180.144.139:63718 dst: 216.165.179.44:8128 - rate: 258/sec continues
14:52:39 Jun 24 866 Firewall Settings Warning Possible SYN Flood on IF X1 - src: 50.92.173.174:61794 dst: 216.165.179.45:8124 - rate: 241/sec continues
14:51:55 Jun 24 179 Security Services Alert Probable TCP NULL scan detected
14:51:47 Jun 24 1371 Firewall Settings Warning Possible TCP Flood on IF X1 - src: 144.76.221.117:51909 dst: 216.165.179.43:8080 - rate: 345/sec continues