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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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Why don't Bitcoin Full Nodes who are not Miners get compensated?
I don't think Satoshi ever answered this question so we can't be 100 percent sure on the rationale but it was clearly the right decision. Firstly, at least today (if not when released) it is orders of …
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How do nodes verify backwards incompatible blocks?
A soft fork is a change to the Bitcoin protocol that adds additional restrictions to the rules enforced by full nodes. However, these additional restrictions only apply to blocks from the point of act …
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How does nix-bitcoin provide greater security for installing Bitcoin nodes?
nixbitcoindev explains here that the additional security provided by nix-bitcoin is due to minimalism, code reproducibility, compartmentalization and defense in depth.
nix-bitcoin uses NixOS which is …
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Can we use fee rate less than 1 sat/vbyte?
You can "create, sign and broadcast a transaction with fee rate less than 1 sat/vbyte" but there is a minRelayTxFee set by default to be 1,000 satoshi per kB and a dustRelayFee defined here. So if you …
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Who enforces new consensus rules in Bitcoin?
Consensus rules are enforced by economic full nodes i.e. full nodes that are actually using their full nodes to verify and monitor their own transactions. Full stop. In that sense, a theoretical miner …
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Does Bitcoin Core have/need an archive mode?
The language used in the Ethereum ecosystem doesn't always entirely align with the language used in the Bitcoin ecosystem.
All full nodes in the Bitcoin ecosystem verify all transactions and blocks fr …
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Create electrum server with bitcoin core
You need to install an Electrum server from outside of the Bitcoin Core software, there are various options: Electrum Personal Server, electrs, ElectrumX.
Alternatively you may be interested in Bitcoi …
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how to obtain the IP addresses of nodes for mining pools?
There isn't a way to obtain these IP addresses (that I know of) other than to contact the mining pool or to follow the sign up process for that mining pool. You don't need to know the IP addresses of …
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How to update Bitcoin Core if compiled from source?
edit: I misread question but here are instructions to upgrade Bitcoin Core using the binaries on bitcoincore.org.
You'll need to shut down bitcoind first.
New Bitcoin Core versions are announced on bi …
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What are the risks of running a pre-SegWit node (0.12.1)?
Is it safe to assume that Bitcoin is not soft-fork backward compatible?
The only benefit of a soft fork over say a hard fork is that old nodes aren't forked off the network if they fail to validate …