anyone else confirm that running with asmap drops knots node counts? looks like they are performing a Sybil attack and the numbers are much closer to 2-3%
going to try asmap today and see if I notice a change 
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donβt think itβs real.. seems fake to me
Kirk getting shot in the neck really energized the plebs into action.
Didnt even think of this but great side-use-case of ASmap βΊοΈ
Whatβs asmap?
asmap.org
Network level detail
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Start9 commented in their recent server sales and estimate of people downloading knots. Thatβs the best data point we have.
π desperate
what do you mean? asmap is ideal for detecting these kinds of attacks. if they are mostly nodes spawned by the same entity it would be good to know that. its not *that* hard to spawn thousands of nodes on the network.
Knots is a fork of Core. It has everything Core has. Not more or less susceptible to Sybil attack as Core
I think you misunderstood what the post was about, that is not what I'm saying
Core is very susceptible to Sybil attacks. Check out eclipse attacks. Asmap feature was added to try and mitigate, but it's not perfect.
I'm not sure you know what a Sybil attack is
The number of Core nodes has not increased recently, hence there is no pro-Core Sybil attack
Desperate? Sybil is the main criticism for counting nodes. Node counts are meaningless because of it. Only hashrate matters. It's the whole point of PoW.
Do the nodes advertise if they are full/archive/SPV nodes?
And can those claims be verified? I.e. if a node claims to be an archival node, can we ask it for an arbitrary block?
I ask because I guess 'fake' nodes could be easily set up quickly and cheaply, where they are missing some functionality or they delegate to full nodes if needed
I haven't looked at the bitcoin network code in awhile but I would imagine it would or at least could be smart enough to do those kinds of things.
I can take a look.
Delusional if you believe that. And in any case what's the problem, filters don't work bro π
1/5/25 - Knots nodes π
I see this on my node after configuring asmap:
β41791 clearnet peers are mapped to 3618 ASNs with 13 peers being unmappedβ
If Iβm understanding that message correctly thatβs a larger than one order of magnitude decrease in peers.
Where is the proof of 2-3% outside AWS?