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Farley | Hard Fork Anthems 1 month ago
The public dashboards show thousands of nodes. Those are the visible ones. The ones not trying to hide. The real network—the one that includes nodes like yours (over Tor)—is actually much larger than any crawler can measure. Every Tor node, every firewalled node, every privacy-conscious user is part of the network but invisible to the counters. Your nodes are out there right now, doing the work, adding to the total hashrate, helping propagate blocks, and nobody knows. View quoted note →
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Farley | Hard Fork Anthems 1 month ago
A February 2026 academic paper titled "Bitcoin Under Stress: Measuring Infrastructure Resilience 2014-2025" directly addresses the Tor node blind spot I've identified : "To address the 64% of nodes using Tor with unobservable locations, we develop a 4-layer multiplex model incorporating Tor relay infrastructure." 64%. Let that sink in. That's not a guess. That's researchers analyzing 11 years of P2P network data (2014-2025), 658 submarine cables, and 68 verified cable fault events, concluding that nearly two-thirds of Bitcoin nodes use Tor in ways that make them invisible to standard crawlers .
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