"Lightning nodes are servers run by participants in the network that allow users to send and receive Lightning payments. There are 1518k public Lightning nodes as of September 2023, with five data sources (Bitcoin Visuals, CoinMetrics, Mempool, Amboss, Glassnode) providing different numbers due to the complexities of mapping the entire network"
That's one section. Go back and read the beginning and the other sections.
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River uses a methodology exclude private node. This is in the first pages. I'm not attacking River. I'm questing facts.
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Is not about River's document. Nobody is "attacking" anybody here, we are just pointing out that the report is OK, but only for public nodes. (those we can "see").
many people still don't know that exist two types of nodes LOL
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How many private nodes and channels exist right now?
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