The State and Direction of Decentralization & Nodes on the Internet Computer

[Dylan]

@dfisher

• Total Nodes: 1,235
• Nodes in Subnets: 549

Total Nodes is the total number of rewardable nodes. Nodes in subnets is the total number of nodes that are active or offline in all subnets.

Here is a post from @bjoern that sheds light on why these numbers are different:

Node compensation and runaway massive inflation

The short answer here is: it’s a temporary measure. It’s a legacy from bootstrapping the network. It’s phased out and will not be done that way going forward; all the nodes that are paid are currently in the process of being provisioned and are planned to be added to the network in the course of this year. So why did we do this at all? The answer is: Bootstrapping a decentralized system is hard. The IC needed nodes to run on from day 1, decentralized to the best-possible extent. Independent NPs…