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?
If you care about contributing to the network = yes
If not = no
Sweet. Will keep it running!
you don't need to. I usually turn on my laptop gui node to create a transaction with my hardware wallet.
my desktop node runs one 24/7 to send notifications to my phone, as well to provide blocks for my lightning node.
Makes sense. I haven't gone as far as setting up a separate node yet. I understand the value of running a node though, so I've found this to be an easy route.
I usually just run the node at home and use a separate laptop to work during the day.