Shifty Pony posted:

Iirc the nodes don't actually do much beyond eating a bit of bandwidth to fetch the latest block/transactions and distribute them to other nodes. Verifying a block is valid is trivially easy so they don't use much compute time.


I wouldn't run one because there is no reason to do so if you aren't a true bitcoin believer, and as a result running a node on a residential IP probably put the digital equivalent of a giant "I probably have bitcoins, try to hack me!" sign on your router.