PSA: Add a Full Node for just $19/year! - page 9.

allgoodthings1

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Quote from: zoro1 on May 19, 2014, 08:14:48 AM

guys, i really don't understand.
Isn't a 24/7 running simple win7 wallet core with full downloaded blockchain a full node?
Do we have to make extra arrangements?

Critical to your question: Check the number of connections you have -- icon at lower right of the window. If you're always stuck at '8', you do not have a full node contributing to the network; if you have more, you do. If you have only the 8, you need to open port 8333 of your firewall and restart the bitcoin client. You should then see your number of connections tick up to higher values. That will confirm you then have a contributing full node.

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Since introduction of ASIC's, bitcoin does not deserve private full nodes aside from those that miners use. Those who make money out of it, should pay for it too. If Bitcoin community and developers wanted spread out, uncentralized, node distribution, they woul never let ASIC's inside Bitcoin. One single little change in code would diaable all known ASICS. After that change no one else would ever try to create another one as they would know that their investment would fail as protocol would change again (noone would invest milions into creating chips that would be rendered useless as soon as they hit the network).

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guys, i really don't understand.
Isn't a 24/7 running simple win7 wallet core with full downloaded blockchain a full node?
Do we have to make extra arrangements?

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Quote from: seriouscoin on May 14, 2014, 02:14:24 AM

Fck off.... $19/year is what the topic says. I hope no1 "donates" to you.

Somehow read that as $19/month, hence the comment. I've deleted it. Massive apologies.

seriouscoin

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I would have thought a $10 DigitalOcean VPS would do it. If someone would like to fund this for $10 a month, then you have a node. =)

Any money sent here will be used to fund full nodes. (If I don't get enough I'll return funds to sender.)

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Fck off.... $19/year is what the topic says. I hope no1 "donates" to you.

DeathAndTaxes

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Gerald Davis

Quote from: rme on May 13, 2014, 02:30:07 PM

Good initiative!

I already have a node, the only problem is that I want to contribute even more to the network, I mean, I have set the maxconnections to a very hight value but I only get <100 connections, I have a lot of spare bandwith (100Mbps) and 2GB of ram.

You can't contribute to the network more than what is needed. Nodes connecting outbound randomly select other nodes with open inbound connections. They favor peers with higher uptime, low error rates, and good latency. Outbound connections are limited to eight per node so if the pool of available inbound connections is larger than the number of required outbound connections not all nodes will be "maxed out".

That is actually a good sign, it indicated the network has expansion capacity for new nodes in the most important attribute, available inbound connections. If all nodes accepting inbound connections were maxed out it would make if very difficult for new nodes which aren't accepting inbound connections to find peers. So even the excess unused capacity is helping to strengthen the network.

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Quote from: forevernoob on May 13, 2014, 02:35:36 PM

How much bandwidth per month does a node use approximately?

From some of the servers listed here the average is 50 GB In, 200 GB Out aprox, depends on the number of connections that your node has.

That is less than 1mbps (providing that the node is 24/7).

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How much bandwidth per month does a node use approximately?

rme

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Good initiative!

I already have a node, the only problem is that I want to contribute even more to the network, I mean, I have set the maxconnections to a very hight value but I only get <100 connections, I have a lot of spare bandwith (100Mbps) and 2GB of ram.

chek2fire

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the next step will be a setup of home node

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Quote from: chek2fire on May 13, 2014, 10:16:20 AM

Quote from: ?? on ??

Quote from: chek2fire on May 12, 2014, 10:27:34 AM

I have try to setup and my cloud server but i dont know that is working. I have done everything in the guide but i dont think i have setup my server. In vnstat i dont see any bitcoin traffic

http://69.12.86.115/vnstat/

how can i see that bitcoin node is runing? And what i have to set in RPCUSER, RPCPASSWORD, IP Address to /usr/local/bin/btc-update.py? My server password and adress or something else? Thx for any advice

edit: ok i see trafic now in vnstat i have change the eth0 with venet0 but i cant see bitcoin node interface. I have look with top and bitcoind is runnign and here when i write my adress

https://getaddr.bitnodes.io/

i see a green quote with 69.12.86.115:8333 /Satoshi:0.8.1/ but i dont know what that means

I've just connected to your node and I am downloading the blockchain from you (and only you) - you are a node.

this is good or bad? Tongue

It's good! - thanks for supporting the network.

Morblias

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It's good. Means your node is working and others can connect to you.

chek2fire

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Quote from: ?? on ??

Quote from: chek2fire on May 12, 2014, 10:27:34 AM

I have try to setup and my cloud server but i dont know that is working. I have done everything in the guide but i dont think i have setup my server. In vnstat i dont see any bitcoin traffic

http://69.12.86.115/vnstat/

how can i see that bitcoin node is runing? And what i have to set in RPCUSER, RPCPASSWORD, IP Address to /usr/local/bin/btc-update.py? My server password and adress or something else? Thx for any advice

edit: ok i see trafic now in vnstat i have change the eth0 with venet0 but i cant see bitcoin node interface. I have look with top and bitcoind is runnign and here when i write my adress

https://getaddr.bitnodes.io/

i see a green quote with 69.12.86.115:8333 /Satoshi:0.8.1/ but i dont know what that means

I've just connected to your node and I am downloading the blockchain from you (and only you) - you are a node.

this is good or bad? Tongue

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Gerald Davis

Quote from: silversurfer1958 on May 13, 2014, 09:04:01 AM

Why can't a node only download, for example, only blocks that begin with 'A' as the first Alphabetic Char.
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Is there a solution to this ?

No. What you describe is a very crude DHT but even a proper DHT doesn't provide for independent verification. The purpose of full nodes is to acts as INDEPENDENT verifiers they can't do that if they aren't independent. If you just want to reduce your personal resource requirements use a lite client (SPV).

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You can buy cheap computers for $20, maybe even use Raspberry Pi with a Hard drive as nodes.
Why can;t we have Sw to use up old Equipment to run as nodes,
I suppose we can, but how do we do it, using up spare bandwidth of our main PC.

Blocks are surely just hashed transactions, IE data.
Why can't a node only download, for example, only blocks that begin with 'A' as the first Alphabetic Char.
That would chop the Blockchain up into 26 Pieces.
52 if we use uppercase and lowercase.
And if we made it two Chars, it would chop the blockchain up 52 x 52 which is. 2704 so our 20Gb Blockchain is now a few Mb.

I suppose the reason why this wont work is because, If my node only has Blocks beginning 'AH' (for example ) the transaction we wish to verify may need to be verified against transactions contained in other blocks beginning 'VW' (for example) and so I can't verify that transaction because my node doesn't store those blocks. Embarrassed

So, I've chopped up the blockchain into much more manageable and decentralised portions,
but now I don't know where all the data is I need to verify my new transaction.

Is there a solution to this ?

chek2fire

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Ok thx!

and gz for the great work! Now i am looking for a vps greek server because i see that here in greece we dont have enough bitcoin nodes. The prices, fees are high here in greece for that serrvers but i think i will find something. Thx again

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Quote from: chek2fire on May 13, 2014, 05:57:58 AM

With vnstat i see that server has 35gb in two days. I think the limit of the server is about 1 terra. Is there any way to upgrade this when the server go out of space?

http://69.12.86.115/vnstat/

The first couple days will have a really high bandwidth due to it downloading the entire blockchain, but after that is caught up you won't use much bandwidth. This is by month (April started the 14th) on one of my nodes: http://192.3.30.206/vnstat/index.php?if=venet0&graph=large&style=light&page=m I think I used that one as a ssh tunnel a few days also, so the bandwidth for just a node will be a lot lower.

chek2fire

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With vnstat i see that server has 35gb in two days. I think the limit of the server is about 1 terra. Is there any way to upgrade this when the server go out of space?

http://69.12.86.115/vnstat/

PeterReid

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Thats a great price!

phillipsjk

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Let the chips fall where they may.

Quote from: AdamSC1 on May 12, 2014, 01:35:40 PM

Does anyone know if this pricing is locked in year over year? If so I'm going to have to set up a ton of these!

Cheers,
Adam

There is some risk concentrating them all in the same data-center.

I have idle long-term plans to set up a Bitcoin node in Iceland, which I believe to be relatively Bitcoin friendly. Would be valuable if Bitcoin is ever banned at home.

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