EddieOz on Nostr: I was pondering "How decentralized is Nostr right now?", so I gathered data from all ...
I was pondering "How decentralized is Nostr right now?", so I gathered data from all online nodes.
As of now, there are 629 active public relay nodes distributed across 34 countries/regions.
The top 3 ASP by connected clients are Cloudflare, HETZNER-AS, NL-811-40021, DIGITALOCEAN and AS-CHOOPA, handling 52% of total traffic.
The top 5 countries are US, DE, FR, SG and CA, handling 88.1% of total traffic.
While the node distribution appears broad, the traffic concentration raises questions about practical decentralization. There's still work to do, but Nostr's decentralized design shows promise a lot compared to centralized social media platforms.
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2024-03-07 17:56:00Event JSON
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