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218 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 28 Jan \ on: Germany and Bitcoin - #1 Network Security ! bitcoin

Frankfurt am Main (773,000 people) is by far the city with the most Nodes worldwide, which is impressive as it has just 20% of the inhabitants of Berlin. In numbers - close to 0.87 Nodes per 1000 inhabitants. I think you can clearly see the difference in the scale of density.

I think it's because a lot of data centers are in Frankfurt. I don't have numbers on this but I believe it makes sense to put data centers in Germany near one of the largest internet exchange points worldwide:

DE-CIX (Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange) is an operator of carrier- and data-center-neutral Internet Exchanges, with operations in Europe, North America, Africa, the Middle East, India and Southeast Asia. All DE-CIX activities and companies are brought together under the umbrella of the DE-CIX Group AG.[4]

The DE-CIX internet exchange point (IXP) situated in Frankfurt, Germany,[5] is one of the largest IXPs worldwide in terms of peak traffic, with throughput of 14.40 Tbit/s in December 2022.

-- Wikipedia, DE-CIX

DE-CIX is the second largest internet exchange point according to public data: List of Internet exchange points by size

However, I am confused since the list groups multiple cities together. So not sure on which place the IXP in Frankfurt is.

I would not be surprised, if the anonymous distribution to the programming part is much more significant.

Yep, developers and people affiliated with bitcoin from Germany seem to care a lot about their privacy (myself included to a degree decreasing over time). I have two more examples but I am not sure if I can mention them here since as mentioned, they care about their privacy, lol

I look forward to your criticisms and feedback, and please tell me if you want me to prolong this story with other perspectives. It consumed around 4 hours to compile all the data. At first i wanted to deep dive in every topic with that post, but was not feasible. :D

Yes! Keep these coming, I am from Germany myself and it's still very interesting to me to read this. :)

I am sure that this post didn't get a lot of replies is just an outlier. I revisited this post because @cryotosensei linked to this post here. The last time I saw it I didn't have time to read it and then I forgot about it :/

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 28 Jan

Thanks for the extra inputs. And for tagging my name. Makes me grin because the extra thirty seconds I took to paste @Bitcoin_Bootcamp’s post was worth it haha. Goes to show that Proof of Work is worth the while