To the question: Have you considered running a Bitcoin node? Why did you or why did you not start a node? If you are running a node, private or working for a company, have you any important thoughts to share?
I don't run a Bitcoin node yet, because I don't have a stable internet network in my local town. But, I installed Bitcoin core wallet which always running on my PC to download the blockchain daily and the wallet always ran automatically when my PC started, so never forget to update block. Beside unstable internet, I also have difficult to setting network configurations, I always don’t have inbound connections. Maybe I have a problem and have wrong step to setting internet modem (router), and Configuring DHCP. I always read
The instruction several times. But the connection never connected so far.