{"id":171422,"date":"2021-02-05T12:20:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T09:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/twitters-jack-dorsey-has-fired-up-a-full-bitcoin-node\/"},"modified":"2021-02-05T12:20:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T09:20:13","slug":"twitters-jack-dorsey-has-fired-up-a-full-bitcoin-node","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/twitters-jack-dorsey-has-fired-up-a-full-bitcoin-node\/","title":{"rendered":"# Twitter&#8217;s Jack Dorsey has fired up a full Bitcoin node"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>&#8217;s Jack Dorsey has fired up a full Bitcoin node  <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDIvOGY4OTYwYTktNzgzOC00MGE0LWIzZDUtZWM5NzU5ZWNmNDlmLmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-5a136f3a>Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey has fired up his own Bitcoin (BTC) node. On Jan. 5, the tech billionaire posted a screenshot of the Bitcoin node software Bitcoind running on his computer, meaning Dorsey now lends a hand in validating Bitcoin transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jack\/status\/1357588751757627393?s=20\">posted<\/a> the screenshot along with the words, \u201cRunning #bitcoin\u201d. The photo shows Dorsey\u2019s computer in the midst of synchronizing with the Bitcoin blockchain, which requires that a user <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download<\/a> the entire history of the chain to date. The Bitcoin blockchain is around <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blockchain.com\/charts\/blocks-size\">325GB<\/a> in size at time of writing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Running <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bitcoin<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W51ga3yrKb\">pic.twitter.com\/W51ga3yrKb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 jack (@jack) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jack\/status\/1357588751757627393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>The synchronization process can take weeks depending on the computer and internet speed, and Dorsey\u2019s screenshot shows that he\u2019s only managed to synch up 2% of the chain so far. <\/p>\n<p>When asked if he was running the node on a dedicated Raspberry Pi, Dorsey revealed he had set it up using an M1 Macbook chip \u2014 the latest in Apple\u2019s line of laptop processors. Dorsey <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jack\/status\/1357594245800988672?s=20\">tweeted<\/a>, \u201cStarting from a scratch build on M1 first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin nodes are different from Bitcoin miners in that they don\u2019t compete for a share of the block rewards. Rather, each node hosts yet another immutable copy of the blockchain, helping increase overall network security. The number of full Bitcoin nodes in operation has fluctuated of late, landing somewhere between 7,000 and 11,000, according to recent <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bitnodes.io\/\">data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin\u2019s node-count recently surged to an all-time high. As reported by Cointelegraph, 11,613 Bitcoin nodes were in operation on Jan. 20. That number had dropped to 7,260 by time of writing.<\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"markets_outlook\"><\/template><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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On Jan. 5, the tech billionaire posted a screenshot of the Bitcoin node software Bitcoind running on his computer, meaning Dorsey now lends a hand in validating Bitcoin transactions&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDIvOGY4OTYwYTktNzgzOC00MGE0LWIzZDUtZWM5NzU5ZWNmNDlmLmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74862,74894,76216,73952,4965,10401],"class_list":["post-171422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bitcoin","tag-blockchain","tag-nodes","tag-jack-dorsey","tag-technology","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}