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
Discussion
nodes are #bitcoin's immune system, nodes protect #bitcoin against parasite & virus attacks.
Based. Core need to cope harder.
Many bitcoind instances are installed on Start9 and Umbrel. If they set op_return = 83 and min_fee 1vsat/byte by default, we would have solved part of the problem.