Okay, so check this out—running a full Bitcoin node is more than a hobby. It’s civic infrastructure. Seriously. For experienced folks who want control over their coins and don’t trust third parties, a node is the baseline: you validate rules, you broadcast transactions, you serve the network. My instinct said it’d be simpler, but then I started syncing and realized a few assumptions most guides gloss over. This is for people who know their way around Linux, want granular control […]

