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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/all

Based 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

FernandoTheKoala 3mo ago 💬 1

I like you man but I don't like this post because:

1) there is no evidence here, there is a big assumption on your part that is not possible that so many knots nodes have popped up (which has been proven wrong by the start9 X post). They have man and it's not hard to believe, lot's of ppl really did not like this change and got off their asses to run a knots node

2) this post seems like an attempt to make the "knots sentiment" look smaller than what it actually is. Why? To me sounds something like "no but look, it is not true that 20% of the network disagrees, it actually is just 12%). I don't see any good reason to recur to this

On the other hand, to show you I try to stay as objective as possible, I don't like the fact that knots people have come up with the csam narrative only 3 days ago (why only now, and not mention it at the very beginning of all this debate in May?). Instinctively sounds like a way to "play some last dirty card" to apply as much pressure as possible in this last month before core 30 is shipped

peace and love

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Super Testnet 3mo ago

don't forget that as soon as I learned of Start9's sales numbers I reposted it for further visibility: nostr:nevent1qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsqgzthpz6s9pu0ld6mmhsc0uc5yhpql35yvx9msgxew7qlwj66gawhcjpfqmd

I still think it's strange that, of the new nodes on the network since June, nearly 100% of them are Knots nodes, and I think that is unlikely to be organic. But even though I hold it unlikely, I do not think a person would be unreasonable if they held the contrary view, and this is largely due to this new evidence from Start9. Namely, I do not think it is unreasonable to hold that Knots evangelists (I count myself in that number) have simply been very effective and that explains the strangely one-sided growth numbers.

> this post seems like an attempt to make the "knots sentiment" look smaller than it actually is. Why?

Because I think the truth is more important than the narrative. If the truth is that the numbers are somewhat inflated due to sybils, then the Knots sentiment is, in fact, smaller than the standard figures suggest. Why share that? Because it is true and relevant information.

There are good reasons to run Knots; the bandwagon effect is not one of them, so if someone is trying to inflate the numbers to induce a bandwagon effect, I want to oppose that effort.