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 ...

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 ...