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Original date posted:2014-04-07
š Original message:How difficult would it be to set up a node? Using lots of electricity at
home (if required) could be an issue, but I do have a Webfaction account.
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Mark Friedenbach <mark at monetize.io>
> wrote:
> > On 04/07/2014 09:57 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> >> That is an implementation issue-- mostly one that arises as an indirect
> >> consequence of not having headers first and the parallel fetch, not a
> >> requirements issue.
> >
> > Oh, absolutely. But the question "why are people not running full
> > nodes?" has to do with the current implementation, not abstract
> > capabilities of a future version of the bitcoind code base.
>
> The distinction is very important because it's a matter of things we
> can and should fix vs things that cannot be fixed except by changing
> goals/incentives! Opposite approaches to handling them.
>
> When I read "resource requirements of a full node are moving beyond" I
> didn't extract from that that "there are implementation issues that
> need to be improved to make it work better for low resource users" due
> to the word "requirements".
>
>
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š Original message:How difficult would it be to set up a node? Using lots of electricity at
home (if required) could be an issue, but I do have a Webfaction account.
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Mark Friedenbach <mark at monetize.io>
> wrote:
> > On 04/07/2014 09:57 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> >> That is an implementation issue-- mostly one that arises as an indirect
> >> consequence of not having headers first and the parallel fetch, not a
> >> requirements issue.
> >
> > Oh, absolutely. But the question "why are people not running full
> > nodes?" has to do with the current implementation, not abstract
> > capabilities of a future version of the bitcoind code base.
>
> The distinction is very important because it's a matter of things we
> can and should fix vs things that cannot be fixed except by changing
> goals/incentives! Opposite approaches to handling them.
>
> When I read "resource requirements of a full node are moving beyond" I
> didn't extract from that that "there are implementation issues that
> need to be improved to make it work better for low resource users" due
> to the word "requirements".
>
>
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