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Topic: [2015-12-25] IBT: Bitcoin giant BTCC donates 100 full nodes to help maintain... (Read 291 times)

legendary
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Nice but i would prefer the nodes would be controlled for normal bitcoin users, not for one of the biggest miners actually, it is a little dangerous
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Bitcoin giant BTCC donates 100 full nodes to help maintain the network

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bitcoin-giant-btcc-donates-100-full-nodes-help-maintain-network-1534926

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Bitcoin exchange and mining giant BTCC has donated and deployed 100 full bitcoin nodes across five continents to support the bitcoin network.

Full bitcoin nodes, which enforce the rules of the bitcoin network by serving a full copy of the bitcoin blockchain and validating blocks and transactions, have been in decline of late, arguably leading the network towards centralisation. The network has seen a 19% decrease in viable nodes over the past year to 5,280 at the time of publishing.
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