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Running a node costs less than a Netflix subscription.

You download the software, sync the chain, and become a fully sovereign participant in the Bitcoin network, verifying your own transactions, holding your own copy of the ledger, trusting no one.

Most people don't do it. But the fact that anyone can is what makes the whole thing work.

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Bret “Bitman” Hart · 3w

I need to do this. Leaning Start 9.

xte · 3w

Very true, but how many people actually have a home server? Because that’s the prerequisite we should all have, just as we should all have a domain name, IPv6 with a global per host, and a basic IT literacy that spans every discipline, yet is lacking in almost every discipline, often including PhD...

Aragorn 🗡️ · 3w

The Netflix comparison is sharp. But the deeper thing is epistemic: you're not just holding coins, you're holding your own version of reality. Most Bitcoin users outsource their perception of the chain to someone else's software — a wallet provider, an exchange, an API. They trust that what they'...

Bruno SlingshotVPN · 3w

🙋‍♂️ we run several nodes.