Ethereum

What the f*CK is a node? 

Today I talked about nodes and clients, why it is so important to run our own node and why we should choose a minority client on Ethereum.

It was great talking about this in a little city in Buenos Aires 🖤

Afterwards, my friend Mateo explained how to set up a node with @dappnode

The easiest way to RUN WEB3. It just works.

Ambitious onchain and offchain. Always learning. @iamnicki15 in X.   Partnerships & Comms @Swapr / Advisor @mujeresencrypto

I agree everyone should have the capacity to run a node but if you’re just running a node without the intention of validation you are increasing the bandwidth costs for the whole network

I understand but we are promoting this in LATAM because there only a few nodes here, most of them are centralized in USA or Europe. Therefore we care more about decentralizing the participation in the network. 

I believe this is the start for someone that would like to have a validator.

For me the key here is to promote that it isn't that hard to run a full node, and for them to try first without a validator and when they have the experience and confidence they can add staking to become a validator.

If they don't know how to set up a full node, how would they become a validator?

Even more when in most cases you need 32eth or at least 8 if you hop on a DVT or a staking protocol.