Bitnodes Launches 'Power-Efficient' Bitseed Rival
Addy Yeow, the developer behind Bitnodes, has released a new hardware bitcoin node. According to the website, which monitors bitcoin node performance worldwide, the Bitnodes Hardware B1 model comes equipped with the latest version of Bitcoin Core and is said to be a low footprint quad-core single-board computer built and configured to operate a dedicated bitcoin full node. In interview, Yeow said: "The goal of Bitnodes Hardware is to provision ready-to-run hardware for everyday consumer to launch their own Bitcoin node at home and become part of the network for a truly disruptive....
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Bitcoin startup Bitseed has announced it is open-sourcing the creation of its new plug-in node. The company, which launched its first node in March, is asking contributors to help evolve its product by completing tasks and solving bounties in exchange for rewards. Bitseed's project is hosted on Assembly, a collaborative platform that tracks contributions to projects with coloured coins on the bitcoin blockchain. John Light, co-founder at Bitseed, told CoinDesk: "The Bitseed Assembly community is our way of trying to make open-source development sustainable, and to financially support the....
Bitseed has launched the first plug-in bitcoin node to encourage users to contribute to the bitcoin network, hassle-free. The $149 node, which comes preconfigured with the official Bitcoin Core client, is credited with using less than 10 watts of power - approximately 12 times less than the average computer. As an essential component of the bitcoin network, nodes broadcast messages in order to validate and relay transactions. Unlike bitcoin miners, who are rewarded for confirming transactions, there is no financial incentive for node operators. According to its website, Bitseed's product....
BitSeed is an interesting company to keep an eye on in the next few months, as they are determined to bring more nodes to the Bitcoin network. And that is needed, as the more nodes we have, the more secure the Bitcoin network is at any given time. Interested parties can now purchase one of BitSeed’s Bitcoin Node, and contribute to the network from the luxury of their home. BitSeed Bitcoin Node: A Brief History. The name BitSeed started popping up on the internet in March of this year, when the company first announced their Bitcoin Node product. A small batch of devices was made available....
Bitcoin Nodes recently hit an all-time high of 13,000+ from 11,613 in January. This is the first time the nodes are crossing the mark and increased from what it was in early 2021. From the data released by Bitnodes.io, the reachable Bitcoin nodes achieve this increase earlier in July. Bitnodes.io is a dashboard where you […]
The number of reachable nodes has declined further following an "attack" that overloaded the bitcoin network. Last week, an unknown actor sent a deluge of spam that left bitcoin's nodes - the clients that store and relay transactions - with upwards of 88,000, or 1GB worth, waiting in their collective memory pool. As Jay Feldis from hardware node maker BitSeed explained to CoinDesk, many low-spec nodes simply could not keep up: "Eventually, the transaction backlog fills-up the RAM memory of the nodes. This causes the node computers to slow down dramatically or even freeze-up. If a node....