Do you know what refurbished bitcoin nodes do differently than brand new nodes? Nothing. They still… - download new blocks every ~10 minutes - replicate 17-years of history to any other node that asks - keeps ₿ decentralized - keeps ₿ distributed

How a self-sovereign bitcoiner feels when they setup their first self-hosted bitcoin node. If you haven’t done so yet, consider finding a way to start(9) serving bitcoin.

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Good morning Nostr. While our servingbitcoin.com website is flapping (because we self host and secure it via Cloudfare Tunnels), our nodes are up and working. If you run a bitcoin node, you should be unaffected (at least locally on your LAN) from this Cloudflare distribution in service. We are still serving bitcoin (but servingbitc

GM. We’re looking forward to serving up some bitcoin today.

We wonder how many bitcoiners stamp their 12 or 24 BIP39 recovery words onto gold bars to finally give them an intrinsic value.

Should Serving Bitcoin also build ETH nodes? 🚫 Yes ✅ No Bitcoin's blockchain requires ~800 GB (~17 years of TX history). Ethereum's blockchain requires ~15 TB (~10 years of TX history). By keeping requirements low, Bitcoin remains more decentralized and sustainable.

Every online service that has existing user accounts should do the following: - automatically create a Nostr public and private key for the existing account - provide these automatically generated values in the user profile - provide the ability for the user to replace these values with a Nostr identity of their own - provide the ability for the user to add (as an alias) a Nostr identity of their own Thoughts?