Coin Dance is a platform that summarises the quantity and distribution of Bitcoin nodes, indicating that Knot, an alternative customer of Bitcoin Core, which has gained traction in recent months, has already supplied more than 2,200 nodes. This represents about 10% of the total nodes in Bitcoin.
According to Coin Dance, who updated the nodes a few hours ago, at the time of writing, there are 22,300 public nodes running.
According to the same metric portal, only 1.36% of Bitcoin nodes were run in the knot in June 2024. For that part, Bitcoin Core did the same thing at 98%. However, a 2,200 knot node corresponds to over 10% of the 22,300. 20,000 Bitcoin cores are just under 90%. These calculations confirm that Knot has absorbed about a tenth of Bitcoin’s core users.
Despite the absorption of public nodes by Knots, Bitcon Core is also continuing to grow in adoption, houseing 20,000 of which. But its growth Alternative clients and only given at a lower rate than actual competitors. As reported by Cryptonotics, a significant amount of users have moved from the Bitcoin core to the knot, mainly for philosophical and political reasons.
Coin Dance recognizes the existence of other implementations of complete nodes, such as BTCD (written in Galang Language), Bitcore (node.js), Bcoin, or Bitcoin UASF. However, the number of nodes that operate in these implementations is not important in terms of adoption.
Summary of the discussion between Bitcoin Core and Knot
As reported by Cryptonotics, Bitcoin Knots is software created by Luke Dashjr, a widely recognized developer in the Bitcoin ecosystem. DashJR is also known You are led to a lesser traditional philosophical and techniques to promote your own Bitcoin-based protocol. Therefore, it is also the co-founder of a mining pool called Ocean, an initiative focused on BTC distributed mining.
DashJR is an important voice against Bitcoin Core, claiming that his tolerance for the non-financial use of the network could undermine Bitcoin’s efficiency and decentralization.
Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knot are divided into philosophical, technical and political visions, particularly regarding the non-financial functions of Bitcoin. What constitutes “spam” (unrelated content with widespread spread).
Currently, some developers believe that Bitcoin Core prioritizes excessive non-monetary transactions, and considers non-sales data (such as ordinal inscriptions and OP_return transactions) as a valid form of network usage. Therefore, the 83-buy Bitcoin core exclusion proposal is limited to the OP_Return transaction limits and past approvals of multiple operations of this type.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin Knot Implement aggressive filters for these inscriptions and try to optimize performancehowever, it is creating tension in the community, with a less consensual, collaborative approach, and refusing to use multiple Bitcoin networks.
Ultimately, this technical discussion reflects questions that can be formulated in a simple way. Should Bitcoin be money alone or a data registration system?
The declared conflict between Knot and Bitcoin Core began around September 2024. The definitive answer to the previous question remains in the joint construction process. Meanwhile, as evidenced in a specific post on Social Network X, this argument has degenerated with a more direct attack among various developers.