Bitcoin nodes surged to 200k

This is _highly_ misleading. The actual number of nodes that they&#x27;re measuring is 11,664, which is a sudden increase from a slowly declining level of about 4,400 as of a month ago.<p>The 196,123 number is a count of the number of distinct IP addresses being rumored between nodes. Most of them are never working garbage sent into the network by confused software, misguided would-be DOS attackers, etc.

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I was watching this through the year, wondering if the decline was due to people moving over to web wallets. Clearly not. I bet this is a good indication of price. The more there is online, the more natural interest there is. I think over time it will start meaning less and less as people do INDEED move over to other wallets.

First the surge in Tor nodes, now this? I bet the Feds did this.

I think that perhaps a large portion of Bitcoin nodes are &quot;dormant,&quot; i.e. offline until the owner feels like updating in order to make a transaction.