A few Bitcoin network insights from my talk at Advancing Bitcoin @ London:
- DNS seeds robust but room for improvement (e.g. tor support)
- 13,000 unique reachable nodes
- Half of the network is tor-only nodes (prob. Umbrel)
- More cloud than self-hosted nodes (Hetzner, DigitalOcean, AMZN alone contribute 25% of nodes)
- Potential second-order effect of ASMAP: reducing network cohesion
Details
https://github.com/virtu/talks/raw/master/2023-03-02-advancing-bitcoin/slides.pdf
Website with live data starts rolling out next week!
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