Well this whole drama is making me finally pull my finger out and spin up a node. Just because it's not existing core users changing over to knots does not make them illegitimate. Running my own node was already an intention well before the drama, so I'm not solely motivated by this issue, however it is definitely a catalyst for doing it now.
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
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