I'd go further: anyone who wishes to dabble, and doesn't plan to accumulate any significant amount of coinage[1] should possibly spend their time more wisely[2]; whereas anyone who plans to pay for their first major chunk of Bitcoin should already be running a node, so that they don't e.g. buy testnet, or one of the altcoins whose wallets can trivially be reskinned to fool a newcomer.
coin-age; weight-times-time, i.e. "bitcoin days destroyed", before they've been moved. savings. stackage. you get my point, I hope! ↩
I'd go further: anyone who wishes to dabble, and doesn't plan to accumulate any significant amount of coinage[1] should possibly spend their time more wisely[2]; whereas anyone who plans to pay for their first major chunk of Bitcoin should already be running a node, so that they don't e.g. buy testnet, or one of the altcoins whose wallets can trivially be reskinned to fool a newcomer.
coin-age; weight-times-time, i.e. "bitcoin days destroyed", before they've been moved. savings. stackage. you get my point, I hope! ↩
perhaps hustling, rather than dabbling... ↩