125 sats \ 4 replies \ @BitcoinMaximan 18 Jul \ parent \ on: bitnodes.io tor node count continues to fall bitcoin
It's not a nightmare and if you don't want to leak your home IP address you'll want to use Tor or I2P. Latency is irrelevant for new blocks and transaction publishing
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73 sats \ 0 replies \ @SpaceHodler 18 Jul
Exactly. I don't spend on-chain often and when I do, I don't mind adding a few seconds to what takes 10 minutes or more anyway.
For downloading and broadcasting new blocks it shouldn't affect the network either as they're mined every 10 minutes.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @tigstigs 18 Jul
It might be a nightmare if latency is the most important part of securing the network by making sure the validation nodes are in extremely fast consensus with each other?
Don't really know what I'm talking about but trying to see things from different angles.
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27 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinMaximan 19 Jul
It's not crucial for the bitcoin network since blocks are ~10 mins apart. Also, home nodes are probably low on incoming nodes (the other nodes to which you will relay new blocks/transactions). The nodes that do most of the work are public nodes in cloud environments with good connections and hardware.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cyberpunk02 18 Jul
Slow private networks are still valuable for many people, because the decentralized other parts of lightning can be fast and surveilable.
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