ok i get it, but why does the total number of nodes increased so hard in the new year?
The total changed because the Tor count was fixed, the clearnet nodes are pretty much the same as before.
The only thing changed is that bitnodes finally fixed their Tor configuration bug.
So Bitnodes was just miscounting TOR nodes -- and therefore total listening nodes -- all along?
If 2,000 nodes
did show up on TOR overnight, could that indicate a de-anonymization attack? Is that possible?