[kbody]

This is a common argument, but the state is quite different.

Ethereum has supposedly 34k nodes, which includes light-nodes which merely hold the last state of the blockchain, that is not a full-node and heavily reduces the trustlessness and security of a cryptocurrency. Light-nodes are closer to an SPV than a Node. I haven't seen any source reporting only full-nodes which would be the proper comparison.

On the other side the number ~7.5k nodes popup for Bitcoin, but that's wrong as well. Those are the full-nodes that are listening for new connections publicly. Not all the nodes of the Bitcoin network.

Following [1] you can see the data from a seed DNS node of Bitcoin, which shows a number closer to reality which is 86k of actual full-nodes.

[1]: http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/softwar...