At the height of China's command over the Bitcoin market a couple or more years ago the number of full nodes there regularly fell below 100.
we have to keep in mind that we're talking about listening/reachable nodes, so any stats like this need to be taken with a grain of salt. the numbers from 2016-2017 are quite low given the number of services (exchanges, wallets, mining pools) in china.
maybe a lot more people there use third party services rather than full nodes. or maybe we're looking at bad data.
I've just had a look and the number of full nodes has gone up hugely in the last few months to over 2000 now, in fact it's added over 1000 in the last month alone.
https://bitnodes.earn.com/dashboard/?days=730Can anyone in the know tell me why this has happened?
i doubt if anyone could tell you. it looks like thousands of chinese nodes are being run out of datacenters. i can't tell when they were spun up. given that more than half were spun up in the last 6 weeks, i wouldn't consider it organic growth, nor important.