According to the block explorer Etherscan.io, Ethereum's node count has plummeted in the last two weeks from well over 9,000 to under 3,000. While chain explorers can give rough estimates, this drop does correlate with the glitch in node software that caused the chain to split just two weeks ago. But why hasn't the chain recovered these nodes yet? {chart} Two weeks ago a bug in a previous version of the most used Ethereum node software, Geth, caused Ethereum's blockchain to effectively split into two chains. This meant that over 50% of nodes had hard forked from the main chain, forming its own chain. Nodes, like ... (full story)