The video below goes through the propaganda and deceitfulness of those trying to attack Bitcoin and harm node runners with Bitcoin Core v30 allowing 100k of non-transaction data to be added to a transaction, opening up the CSAM door. Consequently, Bitcoin Core v30 was up to 560 nodes, but seems to have dropped to 558. While Bitcoin Knots 29.2/20251010 has climbed above it, and with Knots still holding around 22% of market share with all versions. I’d wager that the corrupt corporations looking to profit off of the Bitcoin name for their scammy side projects are responsible for most of those nodes. Since the corrupted Bitcoin Core developers aren’t backing down, the chances are significantly gaining for a soft fork to deal with SPAM transactions once and for all, and to also fix the taproot hack they’ve been exploiting for inscriptions damaging the UTXO set, which they’ve left unfixed for a couple years (purposeful). Just in case someone puts some bad data in the OP_RETURN 100k block of a transaction, I’ve converted my primary node to Tor only like my backup node, as you might not want to be advertising to the world that you’re running a Bitcoin node until these issues get corrected.