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Re: [Guide] How to run a Bitcoin Core full node for under 50 bucks!
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n0nce
on 10/04/2022, 15:51:50 UTC
Quote from: ETFbitcoin on Today at 11:34:01 AM
Quote from: DaveF on April 09, 2022, 02:01:32 PM
Yes if you need it up now, a week is an intolerably long time. If you just want to run a node, you can start it and walk away and come back next weekend and it should be done.

I agree, although IMO a week for sync is long enough to discourage few people even if they don't need it up quickly.
Why that hurry, though? I am confident if there was a strong demand for faster IBD, we would have many more people working on and campaigning for stuff like checkpoints on the blockchain.

Quote from: ETFbitcoin on Today at 11:34:01 AM
Quote from: n0nce on Today at 02:08:41 AM
It's also in general a bad concept running 'decentralized' software on 'centralized' servers. Isn't this what altcoins are doing? Spinning up a few AWS instances and calling it decentralized? Wink

That makes sense, but there are few use cases where you need to use remote/centralized server. For example, small business or non-profit organization who run BTCPayServer.
Correct, yes. In that case, the node may be required to run the payment server on top of it, but those nodes shouldn't be considered part of the 'secure, reliable backbone' of the network, in my opinion.