Over the course of 2023:
Reachable Bitcoin nodes are up 16% to 16,837
Reachable Ethereum nodes are down 25% to 7,483
Reachable Bitcoin Cash nodes are down 28% to 645
Reachable Zcash nodes are down 48% to 4,175
Discussion
Thanks. Just curious, for Bitcoin nodes, do you get the data from bitnodes.io or do you run you own process?
enough said
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Yikes!
This is a wonderful insight into the back-end of “crypto”
Big moment when you realise what decentralised actually looks like
Takes some time for people to get to that point though
It's so weird that there are so few bitcoin nodes. Are we really this early?
Note: Reachable.
Most nodes are likely private and on the tor network.
As an example, look at lightning:
I thought reachable meant that theyre actually communicating with other nodes, not that they're clearnet. nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp can you clarify?
Bitnodes.io lines up with OP. The majority of nodes (~10k) are on tor, but the total is ~16k 
That's fair.
In that case, I too wonder what the meaning of reachable is here.
Nodes that only accept connectivity via inbound requests, nodes that also initiate and establish TCP handshakes themselves or nodes that consistently remain online over a period of time.
I'm shocked at how low the number of btc noderunnners is...
especially when the technical barrier to entry has dropped so low
True. It doesn't take too much time to get a node up and running with #Umbrel or #Start9
hey man know of anyone having issues starting electr and cpu heating up over 90c degrees?
No, but you might wanna ask the @start9 community
Signals.
How much will our nodes matter in the “era of ETFs”? Bitcoin is changing forever in January, not for the better
If your project has a CEO it has one node.
Fired up my first Bitcoin full node this year and it felt goood!
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Gotta pump those numbers UP (I'm 2 of 16837)
Should we thank Casey?
Are Tor only nodes considered reachable?