Golden Finance reported that this week Bitcoin Core developers erroneously claimed that nearly 40% of Knots Nodes, Core's biggest competitor, were being counted multiple times, creating a false impression of their actual scale.
They cited technical criticisms regarding the number of reachable Nodes in Knots, accusing that (before many posts were deleted) as much as 39% of the Nodes (1,758 out of 4,468) were double-counted due to the so-called “Sybil attack”, thereby “artificially inflating the number of Knots users”.
As background, the two most popular versions of Bitcoin node software are currently: Bitcoin Core (which accounts for approximately 80-88% of the market share) and Knots (which accounts for approximately 12-19% of the market share). The specific percentages depend on the estimation method.
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