On May 5, the Bitcoin network briefly boasted over 100,000 ‘full nodes,’ but most are still running out-of-date versions of the software. PSA: a lot of people believe there are about 10,000 Bitcoin nodes. This is incorrect, this number is the amount of *listening* nodes. The total number of Bitcoin full nodes now exceeds 100,000. pic.twitter.com/VYziaKCYzg — Francis Pouliot 🐂 (@francispouliot_) May 5, 2019 Indeed, it is often reported that Bitcoin has somewhere around 9,000 to 10,000 full nodes validating its blockchain (Hard Fork has done this, too!). According to prominent Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr, that number is closer…
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Bitcoin has nearly 100,000 nodes, but over 50% run vulnerable code
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