Zebra version vs MagicBean version

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I’m trying to determine how many nodes are running the latest zebra 2.3.0.

When I view the node list at Blockchair node explorer it displays a list of running node versions expressed as MagicBean:x.x.x.

What is the “MagicBean” equivalent version of zebra 2.3.0? Why is MagicBean displayed instead of the released version eg. 2.3.0?

Thanks

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ZecHub uses this tool to scan for nodes. H/T to @Autotunafish for this fix, make sure to update before compiling.

Running for a few hours yields this, which I narrowed down with grep:

  "/Zebra:2.3.0/": 6,
  "/MagicBean:6.0.0/": 3,
  "/MagicBean:6.2.0(bitcore)/": 1,
  "/Zebra:2.2.0/": 13,
  "/Zebra:2.1.1/": 1,
  "/MagicBean:6.2.0/": 71,

This is just a snap shot of public nodes this crawler sees, more probably exists!

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MagicBean is the name used for zcashd nodes built from the GitHub - zcash/zcash: Zcash - Internet Money repository maintained by ECC. They are not Zebra nodes.

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Also note that the 2k+ MagicBean 7.2.0 nodes are from a fork of Zcash whose name I always forget

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