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We build bitcoin nodes from refurbished computers. Looking forward to serving the bitcoin community by helping more people serve bitcoin from their own nodes.

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@HermesAgentTips A refurbished Lenovo M900 tiny PC. Wonderful.

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@parman_the Commendable. 👏

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@derekmross @rodolpho_arruda Best answer.

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@ballyhoobutcher @calibrated_lies Satoshi moved onto other things before the Raspberry Pi was even announced.

Timeline:

- 2008 Oct: Satoshi White Paper
- 2010 Dec: Satoshi last public post
- 2011 May: Raspberry Pi project announced
- 2012 Feb: first Raspberry Pi released
- 2012 Apr: first units reached buyers

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@ballyhoobutcher @calibrated_lies You are now asserting the original point we made to you.

- Steps 1 to 6 are required
- Only Miners perform step 3 and no other steps

Your initial point that got us involved was:

https://t.co/cdlHZ6Iy8V

"They (nodes) do not build blocks".

Nodes do build blocks. Miners PoW.

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@ServingBitcoin @calibrated_lies @Conza Holy fucking shit. Are you this dumb?

Satoshi is referring to MINING NODES only here. (See “Proof of Work”)

Non mining nodes can only broadcast. They can reject blocks. THATS IT!

They do not build blocks or secure the network.

LEARN BITCOIN. You have been psyoped

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@ballyhoobutcher @calibrated_lies There are no mining full nodes. There are full nodes or pruned nodes. Both of which can be used by a miner.

The hardware of a full or pruned node also doesn't matter to a miner. Node hardware does mater if you point 100 miners to one.

We've yet to understand your point(s).

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@ballyhoobutcher @calibrated_lies Without all of the steps outlined in the white paper you don't have a blockchain. Not a single step can be omitted. Not step 3. Not step x.

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@ballyhoobutcher @calibrated_lies Without steps 1 to 6 you have not build a block. All steps are required. None may be omitted.

The miner only does PoW (step 3). The building of the block and the accepting of the PoW are done outside of the miner.

- Miners hash blocks
- Nodes build, verify, and distribute

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@ballyhoobutcher @calibrated_lies All of steps 1 to 6 are miner + node.

1, 2, 4, 5, 6 = node
3 = miner

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@ballyhoobutcher @calibrated_lies Putting it into the network is step 4, done by nodes.

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@ballyhoobutcher @calibrated_lies It would have been nice to have learned *anything* from you. Alas. At least we were able to help you better understand what nodes do and what miners do.

- Miners only do SHA-256 PoW
- Nodes do EVERYTHING else

1) Node
2) Node
3) Miner
4) Node
5) Node
6) Node

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@ballyhoobutcher @calibrated_lies Not at all, at least for the entire infrastructure industry that is responsible for building or running miners and nodes.

Perhaps your claim that you've be mining since 2013 is dishonest, for you would have well understood the roles mining hardware and node hardware perform.

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@ballyhoobutcher @calibrated_lies There are (almost) no "mining nodes".

There are miners (ASIC) and there are nodes (CPU).

Only the FutureBit Apollo III. But it simply combines an ASIC Miner and CPU Node into a single chassis.

The block building is still done by the node side, PoW by the miner side.

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@ballyhoobutcher @calibrated_lies Well that's dumb.

So you mean that while we have been talking about two distinct pieces of hardware (ASIC miner vs CPU node), you ALSO have been talking about two distinct pieces of hardware but did so as if they were a single piece of hardware?

Why did you make this so hard?

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@ballyhoobutcher @calibrated_lies Then you are ignoring steps 4, 5, and 6 of the white paper. But this is outside the scope our discussion.

We are discussing:

Nodes build/verify/replicate blocks of pending transactions. Miners perform PoW (SHA-256).

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@ballyhoobutcher @calibrated_lies An ASIC miner cannot build the block. It does only one thing: perform massive amounts of SHA-256 hashing (Step 3). Miners have no ability to select TXs, build a Merkle tree, construct a coinbase transaction, or build a block. Those tasks require a CPU node to handle.

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@ballyhoobutcher @calibrated_lies Step 3 (hashpower) is proof-of-work and is done by a miner.

Step 4 (broadcast to the chain) is a verification and network distribution task performed by nodes.

- Hashing (PoW) is step 3, done by miners.
- Putting into the chain is step 4, done by nodes.

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@ballyhoobutcher @calibrated_lies The key correction to your misunderstanding is:

- Nodes (CPU hardware) build blocks (1, 2, 4, 5, 6)
- Miners (ASIC hardware) hash (3)

No specialized hardware has replaced a node’s CPU for steps 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6. Only step 3 has PoW mining hardware replaced the CPU.

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