Nostr Web Client

Please explain this to me like I'm a non-technical retard.

Is it worthwhile for me to simply run Bitcoin Core on my laptop all day? Even if I don't hold any coins in the wallet that's monitoring the ledger?

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Worthwhile is your choice, that's what's cool about it.

In doing so you contribute to the decentralization of the network.

At the same time, there are other ways to run a node, and doing so can take time and computing power. The whole chain is a lot of data.

Does this make sense?

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Absolutely thanks.

I believe what I downloaded was a "pruned node" that isn't the entire network history. So it doesn't take up quite as much space.

That said I want to have a node going so I can make my contribution to decentralizing the network.

Totally. 🫂