Firstly, it's interesting that the US, per head of population (one node per million) actually has less than many European countries. Germany is 3 per million, Finland is 12 per million - even little Iceland has two nodes - one per 150,000 people.
Concentration in areas or cities is more interesting. In the USA California on its own has more nodes than most countries (56) - more than the whole of China or Russia - which is perhaps not surprising.
Concentration in areas or cities is more interesting. In the USA California on its own has more nodes than most countries (56) - more than the whole of China or Russia - which is perhaps not surprising.
Lets not forget that you can have a node anywhere that servers are rented, I had one in one of the Slavs (forgot which one) because it filled in a gap.
Also, don't forget that those maps does not show a realistic view of actual nodes out there.
For example. None of my nodes is on this map or the map from xmr.to
Yeah, I gathered it was not exactly realistic when I saw 180 nodes in a lake in Germany...
Goals ^^^
Well. A groups placement on the map is not that important, as it's just indicating the general area.
This map doesn't show IP addresses of the nodes, so it can't be verified, or be used as a list of usable remote nodes.