Nodes are an essential component of all computer networks. In computation, a node is an electronic device that is part of a network and can create, receive or transfer data through a transmission ...

Bitcoin is a decentralized and finite digital currency, it’s verifiable by anyone anywhere in the world. This is the chief reason people have any interest in holding it at all. No one can dilute the ...

In this article, I enumerate the costs of setting up and running a node in Nigeria, informed by my experience of running one over the past couple of years. I also offer some cost mitigating ...

Amid increasing distrust of custodial solutions and recent upgrades to Bitcoin Core, more Bitcoiners are starting to run their own nodes. The number of Bitcoin nodes is at an all-time high, with ...

On May 5, the Bitcoin network briefly boasted over 100,000 ‘full nodes,’ but most are still running out-of-date versions of the software. PSA: a lot of people believe there are about 10,000 Bitcoin ...

Now up for sale, Taiwanese electronics giant HTC has released a new mobile phone tailored with a hardware wallet to hold certain cryptocurrency assets, including bitcoin. Most notably, unlike its ...

What does hosting your own Ethereum 2.0 node involve? It means that you’ll become a validator for the newly upgraded Ethereum blockchain — and be responsible for verifying transactions and maintaining ...

Running a Lightning Node has nuances but can be profitable and effective if done right. 10 weeks ago, I joined the Lightning Network barely knowing how to open a channel. Last week I became a ...

Ethereum’s most recent fork was (eventually) successful, but it came with unintended consequence: the greater cryptocurrency community learned of its special “big, scary nodes,” and immediately ...