An updated ranking of nations by the largest number of nodes accessible was recently done by Bitnodes – a popular site covering nodes of the Bitcoin (BTC) network. At press time, there are more than 10,000 reachable nodes relatively spread across the entire globe. Nodes exist in two types, namely: accessible (reachable) and non-accessible (non-reachable). Those catch up inbound and outbound links that they have, hence taking part in the maintenance of the network in an active manner and to the blockchain blocks generation of Bitcoin. Those nodes that can’t be accessible then again, can perform only outgoing ... (full story)