Running Bitcoin Core as a Full Node: Lessons, Surprises, and Practical Trade-offs
Okay, so check this out—running a full Bitcoin node still feels a bit like hobbyist engineering mixed with civic duty. Wow! It’s satisfying in a way that mining rigs and exchange accounts never are. My instinct said this would be straightforward, but then reality showed up with disk I/O, network neighbors, and unpredictable mempool storms….