Refurbished bitcoin nodes via https://servingbitcoin.com. Serving Bitcoin by converting fiat PCs into bitcoin nodes.
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How a self-sovereign bitcoiner feels when they setup their first self-hosted bitcoin node.
If you haven’t done so yet, consider finding a way to start(9) serving bitcoin.
Good morning Nostr.
While our servingbitcoin.com website is flapping (because we self host and secure it via Cloudfare Tunnels), our nodes are up and working.
If you run a bitcoin node, you should be unaffected (at least locally on your LAN) from this Cloudflare distribution in service.
We are still serving bitcoin (but servingbitc
nostr:nprofile1qy28wumn8ghj7cnvv9ehgu3wvcmh5tnc09aqzrrhwden5te0vfexytnfduqzqwm285amxdvgx6ny68yq9y4edemf3mp45tju53gaa7nt6whna6uynewnpf serves bitcoin.
mempool.space is:
- a mempool and blockchain explorer
- open-source, GNU Affero General Public License
- can be self-hosted on nostr:nprofile1q9z8wue69uhnvmr9dp58jernwf6xsct8d45hxdn4w5m8gatrdej8v7nhxa3h2cnsw94ksanc09unw6n0d9hkxdp4d44hxu35v4skgtn0de5k7m30qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqzq44xkafh8j8hhy79809wsmv0lw46nu4pkwqjyp20ekml80mytde8phfu08 & nostr:nprofile1qyt8wue69uhh2mtzwfjkctnvda3kzmp6xsurgwqpzpmhxw309a6k6cnjv4kr5dpcxsuqqg829c7gzngg5du03fdcltkt9zzdqkz4jaw9ef94cf0z6munv2r0zsg8cnv5
- can help you improve your privacy by viewing TXs from your own node
Should Serving Bitcoin also build ETH nodes?
🚫 Yes
✅ No
Bitcoin's blockchain requires ~800 GB (~17 years of TX history).
Ethereum's blockchain requires ~15 TB (~10 years of TX history).
By keeping requirements low, Bitcoin remains more decentralized and sustainable.
Every online service that has existing user accounts should do the following:
- automatically create a Nostr public and private key for the existing account
- provide these automatically generated values in the user profile
- provide the ability for the user to replace these values with a Nostr identity of their own
- provide the ability for the user to add (as an alias) a Nostr identity of their own
Thoughts?
Don't wanna hear about it
Every single node has a story to tell
Everyone knows about it
From the Standard & Poors to the Closing Bell
And if I catch you coming back my way
I'm gonna serve bitcoin to you
And that ain't what you want to hear
But that's what I'll relay to you
electrs serves bitcoin.
electrs is:
- an efficient re-implementation of Electrum Server
- open-source, MIT License
- can be self-hosted on @start9labs & @umbrel
- maintains an index of transaction inputs and outputs, allowing fast balance queries
GM.
There are many ways to serve bitcoin today. Running your own node is a great option.
See servingbitcoin.com for refurbished Start9 StartOS DIY nodes.
Look again at that bitcoin node.
That's here. That's home. That's us.
On it every transaction you love, every transaction you know, every transaction you ever heard of, every transaction that ever was, lived out its life on this distributed public ledger for eternity.