Oddly, luke-jr won't open source his counting software (claims it could be "gamed") and in the past admitted to faulty double counting of nodes due to ipv6/ipv4 . We need another source.pic.twitter.com/GERacB77Gg
A digital currency that would survive a nuclear war: the full Bitcoin transaction history, all the way back to the genesis block, exists in over 11,000 copies located in over 100 countries -- and that's just counting the copies running live. https://bitnodes.earn.com/
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Still spreading FUD, eh?
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You're correct.
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If the network get separated in to several unconnected networks, the chains will get all forked-up. When the networks reconnect, private keys will be able to spend tokens on every chain, tokens that may have been locked away for years.
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Would there not just be a reorg back into one chain with the longest, most proof of work chain being it? I think your scenario only happens if changes have been made to nodes and replay protection added.
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2/ Worse, it would be unlikely to be able to forge a new chain-to-rule-them-all out of the orphans. While the networks are separated, for maybe years, people would still be able spend on both chains by walking. I imagine a Mad Max caravan across the Gobi Desert.
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Yeah, if your talking years then different chains may change the rules on their forks so as to not reorg.... then yes people would own coins on both chains.... I think if we ever get to such a situation we won’t be worrying about censorship resistance or decentralisation
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that's shockingly few copies. I should really setup that god damn full node already...
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That's just the listening nodes. They're are 100K+ non listening. ( and that's not counting all the nodes that are on the onion that we can't see)
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Are there Onion nodes which are not represented in Lopp’s chart?https://twitter.com/lopp/status/810171640801873922?s=21 …
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this graph only counts nodes that have a hidden service that know their own onion address and announce it to peers, nodes can even be listening but without publishing their address. i think non listening nodes on tor is really hard to estimate 1/
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but if you set up a tor nodes or monitor for connections from tor exit nodes, and then try and estimate connectivity based on eg. block transfer. nodes connected to both tor and blockstream's satellite would not be countable unless the satellite behaves maliciously. 2/2
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By "live" you mean discoverable?
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You don't know who makes backups of the ledger and where it's stored, detached from any running client ;)
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