Why Run A Bitcoin Node?

@WendellMoone And you should run Bitcoin Knots. Core is compromised by woke activists.

If @nayibbukele really makes every El Salvador household run a node that’d more than double the nodes running now

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Does that Sparrow<->Core or Sparrow<->Knots support connections outside the local network? I've got a Bitcoin Knots node (on MacOS over Tor), but am kind of stuck on the wallet connection aspect to support more than 1 wallet, and from the outside world (hopefully over Tor as well).

So Matt, is running a second node, that you don't use for your transactions, in order that you can comfortably have port 8333 open and receive incoming connections, helpful to the network or not?

Hey Matt, I'm curious—what are your thoughts on @umbrel ? I’ve noticed you don’t mention them. They seem quite similar to @start9labs in some ways. Are you affiliated with Start9, or is there another reason for the focus? Thank you.

Thanks for this great video! I’m planning to run a node and also do some mining. Should I use my MacBook or my PC (I have both)?

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Just set up an umbel on the weekend, connected sparrow to it. Working absolutely fine. Thinking about switching core to knots on it. Great video Matt.