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Nodes that fully verify all of the rules of Bitcoin. The most popular software implementation of full nodes is called Bitcoin Core.
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What percent of nodes are miners?
The two are entirely uncorrelated.
There's no requirement for a miner to run a fully validating node at all.
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Allocation Unit Size (AUS) when formatting drive
Blocks are stored in large contiguous files (gigabytes), and are effectively append only, so they don’t really make any sort of impact on performance.
The high write cycle is in a several gigabyte l …
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How can I view in my shell, live, ALL activity my bitcoind is generating?
bitcoind -printtoconsole -debug
This will output an unreasonable amount of information and break your terminal, and not particularly help you with your sovereignty.
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Is an SSD required to run a bitcoin full node and a lightning node?
A SSD is not required for running Bitcoin, but it certainly helps. You would definitely want one if you were running a production service using Bitcoin, but for something you're using personally it wi …
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IP Addresses of inbound connections in bitcoin full node (TOR) looking as a localhost (127.0...
Those are incoming connections coming through the proxy, which have no other possible identifier than coming from localhost (where the proxy daemon is running). The "sending" port number is effectivel …
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Is backward syncing viable for full nodes?
In bitcoin we add unspent entries to the UTXO when created inside a block, and delete them when they are spent. Syncing “in reverse” would be a messy process that wouldn’t allow for the verification o …
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What is the default number of transactions a full node have in its mempool?
The default mempool limit is 100MB. Not limiting at all would be a significant denial of service risk. Raising the limit will increase the performance of your node in some situations, lowering it will …
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Why does bitcoind have to listen to the public internet when supporting lnd?
Your experience was coincidental, there's no requirement for bitcoind to be listening on a public interface while using lightningd.
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Each full node has different mempool?
The mempool of all nodes is different, but this isn't an issue. There will always be some inconsistency due to latency, network conditions, and differing configurations. This doesn't measurably impact …
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Provide Services to many Lightweigh Nodes (SPVs) and Save The Communication History
First, I want to make sure that a sufficient number of lightweight wallets are connected to the node.
There's very little use of BIP37 today, and it's not even served by default by modern versions o …
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Only 10 connections on my raspberry pi full node
bind=127.0.0.1
Binding the p2p port to localhost means that it can not accept incoming connections from anywhere other than software on your own machine.
listen=1 #enable download of new data
This …
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Can bitcoind and btcd share a datadir?
No, they’re completely incompatible.
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Will the size of a Bitcoin Core full node be too big to run on a normal computer?
Bitcoin has to maintain some balance to be able to retain the ability to be decentralized. As you've correctly established, this is partly down to making sure that the resource requirements of fully v …