Increased on-chain transactional privacy. Education. Being a good community member. Assisting the network that is assisting you. Those sorts of things. Come join in, it makes you a true citizen of Bitcoin with a small but important vote in the future direction of the network if you actively select y...

It's how you vote in Bitcoin Consensus Protocol. Somebody tries to change the rules of Bitcoin and you don't agree? Your node will enforce the consensus rules you agree with. It gives you a voice on the protocol.

Good question. Let's say you have your corn in cold-storage. You transact, send, receive, etc. Maybe you are a bitcoin treasury, maybe just someone that wants to not have your IP associated with your wallet. If you check a public node, your IP goes with that check and now someone knows you are...

node operators determine what Bitcoin is. that is to say: the consensus mechanism is held in the node software & by choosing which version of Bitcoin software to run on your node you are effectively placing your vote on which software is the real Bitcoin software no node, no vote

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