Bitcoin Core devs claimed Knots operators were inflating statistics
Bitcoin Core devs falsely claimed this week that almost 40% of Knots nodes — Core’s biggest competitor — had been double counted, giving a false impression of its actual size. Citing a technical critique of the number of reachable nodes running Knots, they alleged (before deleting many of their posts) that as much as 39% of nodes — 1,758 of 4,468 — were double-counted due to an alleged “sybil attack designed to inflate the number of Knots users.” For context, the two most popular versions of software for Bitcoin node operators are Core with approximately 80-88% dominance, followed by Knots at approximately 12-19% dominance . The exact percentage depends on the estimation methodology. Knots leader says Bitcoin Core v30 could host illegal adult content Read more: Cøbra warns that Knots could threaten Core’s reference status Claiming 2/5ths of Knots nodes are fake Bitcoin developer SuperTestnet fueled skepticism on Monday over t...