How difficult would it be to set up a node? Using lots of electricity at home (if required) could be an issue, but I do have a Webfaction account. On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Mark Friedenbach > wrote: > > On 04/07/2014 09:57 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > >> That is an implementation issue-- mostly one that arises as an indirect > >> consequence of not having headers first and the parallel fetch, not a > >> requirements issue. > > > > Oh, absolutely. But the question "why are people not running full > > nodes?" has to do with the current implementation, not abstract > > capabilities of a future version of the bitcoind code base. > > The distinction is very important because it's a matter of things we > can and should fix vs things that cannot be fixed except by changing > goals/incentives! Opposite approaches to handling them. > > When I read "resource requirements of a full node are moving beyond" I > didn't extract from that that "there are implementation issues that > need to be improved to make it work better for low resource users" due > to the word "requirements". > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Put Bad Developers to Shame > Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration > Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment > Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >