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Why should I run a node? What's the benefit to me for the effort? The answer seems less than clear.

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 associated with that wallet and what your IP is - admittedly almost as good as a physical address these days.

If you check YOUR node, no one knows anything. If you run your node over TOR through a VPN with no logs, not even that.

Also, you support consensus.

You can also run a Nostr relay on your node. That is my next project.

Lightning nodes can also be configured. I think that will be later, assuming I'm around.

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S.Y. Slay 7mo ago 💬 1

If I use a vpn with a public node, I still haven't revealed my IP address, have I? I think I will want to run a node eventually, if only for my own education, but until I plan to buy things directly with bitcoin, there doesn't seem to be a very pressing practical reason to do so. For now, I'm HODLing and educating myself.

Jim Craddock 7mo ago 💬 1

First task: Set up your lightning wallet on Nostr.

S.Y. Slay 7mo ago

I know. I need to wait until late July to do that but will then.