nodes map The number of reachable nodes has declined further following an "attack" that overloaded the bitcoin network.
Last week, an unknown actor sent a deluge of spam that left bitcoin’s nodes – the clients that store and relay transactions – with upwards of 88,000, or 1GB worth , waiting in their collective memory pool.
As Jay Feldis from hardware node maker BitSeed explained to CoinDesk, many low-spec nodes simply could not keep up: "Eventually, the […]