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28 sats \ 9 replies \ @ZezzebbulTheMysterious 13 Jan \ on: 1 terabyte hard drive cliff bitcoin
You can configure bitcoind to prune the blockchain if you are running out of space.
While Darth is right that changing over drives is trivial, this becomes non-trivial the moment the server is in another country and physical access is restricted. I suspect I will have to migrate to pruning nodes, as opposed to archival nodes. It would be too expensive to physically upgrade the drive.
But as I understand, a pruned node isn’t helpful in the event of a 51% attack, right? This is why I don’t like the idea of all the full nodes getting more concentrated in richer areas.
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51% attack is not about nodes. The world will not make too much difference because your node is offline or pruned.
And I am sure you are not a real seeding node with port 8333 open and large bandwidth to share to the whole world, you are just a meaningless umbrel node with just 8 connections active.
All this crap with "I am running a node to help the network" is a myth... you are not helping any network with a crappy node, you are only verifying your own txs. That's all.
If you really want to help the network you need a fucking good machine wide open, sharing to many leechers, with good bandwidth, port open, running on all networks. and be 100% reliable seeder for the blocks And that is not for everybody.
The world doesn't give a shit about your shity umbrel node that barely have 10 peers and also on Tor, losing connection all the time. That is not "helping the network".
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When are you going on a podcast DC? Could be the move?
Wear a bandana shades like gigi calle if needed
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I do not like podcasts. I like more to write guides than talk on podcasts.
Do I need a bandana when I have my own Vader mask?
I mean, maybe he already does do them. Wouldn’t it be hilarious if Darth coin was some famous podcaster?
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No. Darth will be the last man on Earth without running a podcast.
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Depends how far the pruning is going back. Bitcoin itself will only check the last n blocks on startup, its not parsing the full chain every time.
It is exceptionally unlikely that someone will ever have the computation power to reorg hundreds of gigabytes of Bitcoin blockchain.
Something also about checkpoints but im not sure the status of these in 2025
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