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.
Not exact matches
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.»