Whoa! For folks who’ve run a handful of nodes, validation can feel like a black-box ritual. My first instinct was to treat Bitcoin Core as sacred and opaque, but actually, wait—let me rephrase that: ...

10 weeks ago, I joined the Lightning Network barely knowing how to open a channel. Last week I became a profitable Lightning Network routing node. Here are some tips on the ultimate strategy game for ...

Digital assets firm Kraken notes that the beauty of the Bitcoin (BTC) network is that “anyone can participate in it without permission.” However, primarily out of convenience, most Bitcoin users ...

Let me explain quickly that a Bitcoin node is any computer which runs a piece of software (Bitcoin Core) that has some important jobs: Your Bitcoin node needs to keep a copy of the entire Bitcoin ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a new design to reduce the hardware burden for running a network node, framing it as a step toward a fully decentralized network that doesn’t require ...