Not to mention:
- Running a modified client to spoof client version and manipulate the figures (which could lead to a premature fork, which is more dangerous than a fork with consensus)
- Impersonating satoshi to discredit a fork proposal
- Dismissing all fork proposals as an altcoin
The dirty tricks campaign needs to cease.
It seems that people forgot about the Pseudo nodes in the 'XT drama'. As far as satoshi is concerned, we don't have evidence of it being fake nor evidence that it is real (do we?). However, the third point is debatable. Some call them contentious HF's, some call them altcoins, and such. There is no clear definition of what they are. There have been shady actions from both sides that I disagree with.
We need 18% more nodes and Core will lose their majority. Now that's a leverage we can get it. Since I am sure they will fail to launch SegWit on time, because that's how Core is. It required a lot of drama and a lot of meetings so they can finally put a date on it that they will not respect it.
The number of nodes is an useless metric, especially since one of your biggest supporters (Armstrong) is promoting a sybil-attack on the network. It won't matter even if you had 10 million nodes on Amazon.
They never and will never respect Bitcoin community opinion. We don't need this kind of people.
Said by the people who try to break consensus and keep starting "wars" and attacks on individuals(e.g. /r/btc). This does not help anyone.