There’s an ongoing attack on Monero network, for further details read the following article: https://sethsimmons.me/posts/moneros-ongoing-network-attack/
TL;DR Someone deployed ~130 monero nodes to try halt the network. However Monero has more than a thousand nodes so the attack has no success for now.
Now back to Zcash.
Based on blockchair explorer there are 140 nodes running the network: Zcash / Node explorer — Blockchair
Firstly, I wonder if this figure is correct?
If so, then a similar attack would halt zcash network.
Actually I’m surprised that zcash has so few nodes.
If all the above is correct and if I’m not missing something, then it’s crucial to start educate people to run zcash nodes. And deploy more trusted nodes from ZF, ECC and other trusted Zcash entities.
This says there are only 5 nodes, which seems completely bogus Zchain Network - Zcash Network Visualization
e.g. I don’t see the node that I’m running at my house
Is there a tool that reliably shows the size of the zcash network?
No its inherent in bitcoin and is the method that crawler uses but it doesn’t seem to be supported here idk, I wonder how blockchair does it
(Sounds silly maybe but what about getting peers, banning them and repeat until you stop getting peers?)
(That call does seem to kind of exceed the concept of ‘least privilege’)
Nodes behind a NAT, and mobile apps for example, aren’t “reachable” as servers, so they’re typically not listed in these explorers. We could include Tor hidden services though
