Jack Dorsey, P.-D.G. Twitter, will soon participate in the Bitcoin (BTC)
blockchain after revealing the installation of its own node.
The main interest is to participate in the blockchain consensus and to ensure permanent access to the Bitcoin network.
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Jack Dorsey installs his Bitcoin node
Jack Dorsey revealed on Twitter that he has set up his own Bitcoin full node, or full node in English.
The
billionaire posted a screenshot with the words 'Running #Bitcoin'. The
image shows Jack Dorsey's computer in full sync with the Bitcoin
blockchain, which requires downloading all of the chain's history to
date. The size of the Bitcoin blockchain is approximately 325 GB. Dorsey
also revealed that he has chosen to mine his node with an Apple M1
chip, not a Raspberry Pi.
Mining a Bitcoin node is different from
mining in that there is no competition for a share of the block
rewards. Rather, each node hosts another immutable copy of the
blockchain, which helps increase the overall security of the network.
In
addition, the main interest for the owner of the node is to ensure
permanent access to the Bitcoin network and to be able to have its
transactions validated by the latter.
Long-time member
Jack Dorsey has been a Bitcoin enthusiast for
several years. In 2014, some engineers at his payments company Square
asked if they could integrate BTC into the app. Jack Dorsey agreed and
that's when he understood the implications behind Bitcoin.
In
February 2019, he appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, where he
proclaimed that the Internet will have a currency and that currency
could be BTC: “[Bitcoin] is something that was born on the Internet,
that was developed on the Internet, which was tested on the Internet,
”he said at the time.
In December 2019, he also created an
offshoot of Square, called Square Crypto, which is intended to work on
the development of open source Bitcoin. The company has also given
numerous grants to Bitcoin developers.
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