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In 2008 Satoshi wrote that only coin creators would eventually need to run nodes. Mining did leave ordinary computers; nodes did not. Who runs the nodes at 25,489 reachable addresses, and why, unpaid.
On October 3, 2026, 12,524 of the 25,501 Bitcoin addresses a crawler could reach were Tor onions. What the count measures, how it grew from Satoshi's 2009 Tor proxy support, and why nodes hide IPs.
Satoshi asks whether Bohm's IP address changed, since his own node can't accept incoming connections, says there may be nobody else running Bitcoin right now, and asks him to keep his server running.
American Bitcoin infrastructure engineer. Built Statoshi node telemetry (2014), was SWATted at his home in 2017, joined Casa (2018), and wrote "Who Controls Bitcoin Core?" (2018).
The August 2010 overflow recovery rested on knightmb's snapshot. Secondary sources have since attached a misattributed 10%-holder claim and a contested Tennessee identification to the same handle.
Pseudonymous early Bitcoin user who ran one of the largest 2010 nodes and hosted public blockchain snapshots. His snapshot seeded Gavin Andresen's recovery patch after the value overflow incident.