npub1gth6pfk5gp80dyjx5ll590zqddcf3k8j2qyyqxa6l37utyz4nlzsay3a7q is on Nostr. #Bitcoin #BTC #Bip110 #knots #core #spam View quoted note →

Another banger from @Matthew Kratter . Everyone should checkout this site if you want to see the actual data about how much spam is on the network.

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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 →

Happy subscriber of his. Articles are clean, data rich and humble. His website is the GOAT.

Hello Matthew, could you please give a bit of info on how in 2017 - 500 #noderunners ran #bip148 please and forced the miners (and the rest of the network to comply - and accept Segwit)? Is there a source for this info? I am surprised that such a low number has such a huge influence on the protocol level eventually.

Excellent site. He does a fantastic job of illustrating the spam attacks on multiple dimensions. Proof of work at its best. Ivan Pustogarov in 2015 explained that running bitcoin over tor introduces risk to the network. It is true that you don't have to open port 8333 on your router with tor, but depending on another node network for uptime (only 8,000 to 10,000 tor relays worldwide) gives me some pause on weighing privacy pros and cons. However, with rising spam (and potentially illegal content) on the network, clearnet may pose an even greater risk in the future. Not spreading FUD on network configuration or anything, just objectively analyzing the security and privacy tradeoffs. Your node, your rules. Your keys, your coins.

@Renaud Cuny shares valuable Bitcoin data and knowledge. The objective data and truth exposes the lies of spam excusers and the gaslighting of compromised Core devs.