According to @BitMEXResearch, 10.4% of peers connected to its two BTC nodes (124 peers each) are running Bitcoin Knots, up from 6.2% on June 23, 2025 (source: BitMEX Research on X, Oct 5, 2025). Using bitcoin-seeder, @BitMEXResearch measured 9.0% of discovered nodes as Knots and noted the tool likely excludes Tor by default (source: BitMEX Research on X, Oct 5, 2025). For traders, this reflects a +4.2 percentage point (+68% relative) rise in Knots share within a sample of roughly 248 peers, providing a current snapshot of BTC node client distribution to monitor for network trends (source: BitMEX Research on X, Oct 5, 2025).