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Operational privacy for real people.

I’m taking this corn down. What’s the best thing to do with the stalks? Just mulch them up with a machete and bury them?

#garden

I think insects got me. Still plenty of growing season left and I’m going to try again and this time use sevin.

I was going for calorie density. Corn and potatoes have a long history of feeding populations when they didn’t have much else.

I am a crap gardener. All my corn looks like this. I want to cry 😭

#garden

#permies

Yes exactly. So by running a node I can point my wallet to my own node to check my balance and transactions without concern about fakery going on or prying eyes watching.

Additionally nodes enforce the bitcoin rules. If a transaction didn’t follow the rules then my node doesn’t add it to the blockchain records. All the nodes talk to each other making sure everyone has the latest blocks of transactions and that everyone is following the rules. If someone puts out new bitcoin rules I have a choice if I want to use that or stay with the old ones. It’s the consensus of everyone independently deciding what rules to use is how the network updates and defends itself.

No. Well not like you are asking. The node is a record of the blockchain going all the way back to the genesis block. It holds the record of every transaction that has ever happened. The sum of all the additions and subtractions (UTXOs) associated with your address / keys is your bitcoin. You don’t own coins but rather a check book balance.

Using your own node means that you don’t have to trust some random one somewhere and privacy.

Blackrock can buy my bitcoin from my children if they choose to