Whoa! For folks who’ve run a handful of nodes, validation can feel like a black-box ritual. My first instinct was to treat Bitcoin Core as sacred and opaque, but actually, wait—let me rephrase that: ...

Bitcoin nodes independently validate transactions and enforce shared rules without a central authority. Proof-of-work ...

Digital assets firm Kraken notes that the beauty of the Bitcoin (BTC) network is that “anyone can participate in it without permission.” However, primarily out of convenience, most Bitcoin users ...

On day one of the 2017 MIT Bitcoin Expo, Sia Co-Founder David Vorick, who has contributed to Bitcoin Core, gave a presentation on the important role played by full nodes in digital currency networks.

In this article, I enumerate the costs of setting up and running a node in Nigeria, informed by my experience of running one over the past couple of years. I also offer some cost mitigating ...