All,
In December consensus weight of many nodes suddenly dropped. Using the onionoo database I have calculated the average consensus weight during 18-25 october 2014, and the average consensus weight during 11-18 january 2015 of all relays that exist longer than half a year and sorted them by the amount the consensus weight has dropped: http://nosur.com/consensus.txt
Almost all of the relays at the top of the list show the same drop in December and the short spike around januari 6th. The exits I operate used to contribute around 80 Mbps to the network but are now down to no more than 0.05 Mbps.
I am aware of the Lizard Squad annoyance around that time, but the disruption seems to continue for many old relays. Has there been a change in the consensus calculation that might be causing this?
Thanks, Bram de Boer