Super Testnet on Nostr: Allegedly, 19% of the bitcoin network is now running knots However, I think I have ...
Allegedly, 19% of the bitcoin network is now running knots
However, I think I have detected evidence of a sybil attack designed to inflate the number of Knots users
I have annoted part of the "historical nodes" chart available at
http://coin.dance/nodes/allBased on this, I suspect the *real* percentage of Knots usage (subtracting probably sybils) is about 12.3% of the total network -- ~2,710 nodes out of 21,950 nodes.
Still a big deal, but not as big as the current numbers seem to suggest
Published at
2025-09-08 17:21:28 UTCEvent JSON
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