bitnodes.io tor node count continues to fall
856 sats \ 12 comments \ @Scoresby 18 Jul bitcoin
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)?
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405 sats \ 0 replies \ @Murch 18 Jul
Given the sudden drop and it not being reflected in other node trackers, probably their method of tracking onion nodes hit a snag.
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17 sats \ 10 replies \ @DarthCoin 18 Jul
Good. Tor is not meant to be used for nodes.
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77 sats \ 9 replies \ @delta1 18 Jul
smoothbrain take. many in authoritarian regimes need tor for privacy.
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17 sats \ 8 replies \ @DarthCoin 18 Jul
  1. If you live in a authoritarian regime, the question is not about tor, but about wtf are you doing about that regime...
  2. Tor maybe is good to browse with more privacy some websites, but NOT for running LN nodes. By saying that you use Tor for your LN node privacy it means you do not know well how to run properly a LN node and multiple ways to run it on clearnet.
People nowadays have a wrong idea about what really is privacy but still they use the word like a panacea.
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127 sats \ 7 replies \ @SpaceHodler 18 Jul
If you live in a authoritarian regime, the question is not about tor, but about wtf are you doing about that regime...
Using Tor is one of the things one can do about the regime.
Tor maybe is good to browse with more privacy some websites, but NOT for running LN nodes.
The post was about Bitcoin Core, not LN nodes?
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42 sats \ 6 replies \ @DarthCoin 18 Jul
Even for core nodes is a nightmare and introduce a lot of latency.
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286 sats \ 0 replies \ @kristapsk 18 Jul
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.
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125 sats \ 4 replies \ @BitcoinMaximan 18 Jul
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
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73 sats \ 0 replies \ @SpaceHodler 18 Jul
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.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @tigstigs 18 Jul
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.
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27 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinMaximan 19 Jul
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.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cyberpunk02 18 Jul
Slow private networks are still valuable for many people, because the decentralized other parts of lightning can be fast and surveilable.
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