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https://bitnodes.21.co/nodes/ is also useful to follow what's happening.

It looks like 25% of the nodes in the Bitcoin network are suddenly running "Bitcoin ABC" (the implementation supporting bigger block sizes) on AWS... someone somewhere has started a bunch of (spot?) instances it seems.

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Which is a "PR" move and nothing much, I want to point out. I think the metric everybody is watching for at the moment is the hashrate on the BCC fork. It'll show what portion of miners actually commit to the fork.

Spawning nodes is cheap and doesn't really mean much.

There are reports that the new AWS nodes aren't playing nicely with existing nodes. It may be an attack.

any link to share about this?

Here's the thread I'm following.

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6qvofq/someone_just_la...

Are you able to run multiple nodes on a single machine, or does each node need a unique IPv4 address? If you can do IPv6 or multiple ports, a Potemkin village of even t2.nanos seems wasteful.

You can actually get multiple IPv4 addresses on a single EC2 instance. How many depends on the instance type, it ranges from 4 public addresses for the smallest type, to 750 on the biggest types.

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