Roger on Nostr: Running a node earns its place differently than most people expect. It does not make ...

Running a node earns its place differently than most people expect. It does not make the network faster, and one more of them changes nothing for anyone else. What it changes is what you have to trust. Mine runs pruned: 157 GB on disk, verified to block 970,286 this morning, and it validated every transaction since 2009 on the way there without keeping them all. Nobody mentions the sync. That cost is real, and it is a one-time one. Still worth it.