bitnodes.io's tor node count has continued to drop (down about 1k today, 10k in last 90 days).
Luke Dashjr and 21 Ninja node counts haven't reflected this drop off.
Anyone know other places that publish data on reachable nodes (and aren't pulling data from bitnodes)?
Given the sudden drop and it not being reflected in other node trackers, probably their method of tracking onion nodes hit a snag.
Good. Tor is not meant to be used for nodes.
smoothbrain take. many in authoritarian regimes need tor for privacy.
People nowadays have a wrong idea about what really is privacy but still they use the word like a panacea.
https://m.stacker.news/40294
Using Tor is one of the things one can do about the regime.
The post was about Bitcoin Core, not LN nodes?
Even for core nodes is a nightmare and introduce a lot of latency.
Not really, few seconds more latency doesn't matter much for block downloads and transaction broadcast.
It's not a nightmare and if you don't want to leak your home IP address you'll want to use Tor or I2P. Latency is irrelevant for new blocks and transaction publishing
Exactly. I don't spend on-chain often and when I do, I don't mind adding a few seconds to what takes 10 minutes or more anyway.
For downloading and broadcasting new blocks it shouldn't affect the network either as they're mined every 10 minutes.
It might be a nightmare if latency is the most important part of securing the network by making sure the validation nodes are in extremely fast consensus with each other?
Don't really know what I'm talking about but trying to see things from different angles.
It's not crucial for the bitcoin network since blocks are ~10 mins apart. Also, home nodes are probably low on incoming nodes (the other nodes to which you will relay new blocks/transactions). The nodes that do most of the work are public nodes in cloud environments with good connections and hardware.
Slow private networks are still valuable for many people, because the decentralized other parts of lightning can be fast and surveilable.