There arent as many full archival bitcoin nodes as one would think,
Yet, 60,000 full nodes supporting the network is still insane.
If youre not running a directly downloaded version of Bitcoin Core, youre probably not one of the few.
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I'm running 5 full nodes.
Planning to reduce that this year though.
5 plain core downloads?
2 running a raspibolt setup (1 with Electrs and LND, the other with Fulcrum and CLN)
2 running mynodebtc (one pi, one amd64)
1 with just Bitcoin core on Windows using bitcoin-qt
Yeah really easy too. I wiped my wife's old laptop and installed Ubuntu. Download core. Made sure it connected to my wallet. Verify my transactions and balance. Nothing fancy.
Best setup for financial sovereignty this planet has to offer.
I run a pretty full set up right now.