Public nodes should have never taken off in Bitcoin. A supposed 100 million people “own” BTC, yet only 100k of them interact with the network without trusted third parties. That’s a terrible trade-off. Literally the second sentence of the white paper warns against it.
If you don’t have 2 TB to spare for a full node, or don’t want to commit to running a server 24/7, a pruned node on your laptop is magnitudes better than a public node.
All you need is 40 GB of free disk space to get through the IBD, and then you can prune it down to around 4 GB. That’s the equivalent of an HD movie.
Just open any AI. If you’re on a Mac, open Terminal. If you’re on Windows, open PowerShell as administrator. Ask the clanker for the commands to run a pruned Knots node, give it the official website, and start copy-pasting. The AI will guide you through the entire process: downloading, syncing, verifying PGP keys, creating a GUI on your desktop, configuring the node to start automatically, connecting to your wallet, everything.
You can be a complete technical bozo and still pull this off in an hour or two. Just try it.
Facts. I’d go even further: BTC has no probability of success. This opportunity was lost on 8/8/26. It’s the date on which Bitcoiners failed Satoshi, and probably every future generation for many many years.
btw this also means that the USG is running their own Knots node, since this is the only way you can take control of your XBT coins. There ain’t any public node services here.
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Selling bitcoin to cover mining costs is opaque. You sell fiat to cover the electricity bill and get rewarded with harder money.
People who have to sell their bitcoin to cover mining costs are doing essentially two things: putting downward pressure on the price, thereby hurting their own bottom line; and, most likely, scaling their operations with debt, which makes the whole thing even worse.
You essentially become a dirty speculator who is simply hoping for NGU to squeeze out 3% net profit, until a sudden sell-off hits, you get margin called, and eventually end up broke or bankrupt.
That kind of “mining” looks a hell of a lot more like day trading. With leverage.
This is why I support the 1-year coinbase maturity extension. It basically says: if you want to mine, you must be willing to hold.
Another retarded meme putting Bitcoiners in a state of complacency. “Don’t do anything, just sit back and relax, Bitcoin will do the rest.”
Sorry, it doesn’t work that way.
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