Sentences with phrase «people running nodes»

The blockchain that keeps track of everyone's transactions has been running thanks to thousands of people running nodes around the world without a single moment of failure or breach of security for the last 9 years.

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People obtain these copies by running a node.
Nodes are run by individuals or groups of people who contribute money towards buying powerful computer systems, known as mining rigs.
The people who run nodes want to be paid in «Ether» (the name of the magic internet money that Ethereum uses, in contrast to bitcoins) to execute the functions you want to run.
As for Stellar, its ecosystem has two primary components: the people running Stellar nodes on their machines, and the anchors that facilitate the conversion of cryptocurrency to fiat currency.
Making full nodes more difficult to run would further limit the number of people that can verify transactions themselves.
Of course, we might also see people using third - party services to manage Lightning Network payment channels on their behalf, which would include running a full node to monitor the blockchain.
The Bitcoin Foundation, in partnership with Bitnodes, is sponsoring an incentive program for people to run Bitcoin full nodes.
A lot of people have this idea that nodes can include individuals running at home, but as an individual, you care about your own transactions.
Because running a Tor exit node is so risky, few people do it.
If you run the miner in the geth console with miner.start as described in the last post, you'll see a little mining icon in the bottom left corner of the screen and the number of connected nodes (the people icon) will say «1», as it will detect your node.
It would be great if people were running nodes off of Raspberry Pis in their houses.»
If Bitcoin does fail to scale then the end result will be a smaller number of full nodes but lots of people using the system — this is still better than Bitcoin being deliberately crippled so it never gets popular because even if the number of full nodes collapses down to less than 1000, unknown future advances in technology might make it cheap enough for everyone to run a full node again.»
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