yes. a single core will do actually. even raspberry pis can run core, and i believe a lot of old notebooks are used for local casual nodes as they use less power than desktops, but more than a rpi of course. just need about 500 gb storage if you want the full blockchain (recommended), less if you run pruned.

this seems a bit out of date but read here:
https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#what-is-a-full-node

isnt that part of what we signed up for? maybe not initially (for me originally it was the mining tech and a use for my game machines that did also did seti and folding on occasions, then later the actual use case and byob thing but that took a while) but now the roller coaster ride is expected. almost required now even. i admit i was falling asleep during that long sideways thing.

i mean whats more fun that watching your stack jump or dive 40% in value overnight. well ok there ARE more fun things but they will remain unnamed as gentlemen dont discuss such things (so ive been told).

the bitcoin rollercoaster guy is still the best meme on bitcoin ive ever seen. its so accurate as to what goes on. at this point anyway.

im now re thinking my plan of getting old.

the hardware wallet needs to send the actual coin addresses to ledgers servers so you can see the balance on that address. that info possibly getting out, the amount of coin someone has control of, is worrisome to say the least.

at the very least i would move everything to a new wallet (new seed etc) just so when someone looks up that addy all they will see if what it did have. of course its possible to trace the coins to the new addys.

sucks big time all around.

they stated that your crypto is safe but i wonder if any coin addresses were leaked. just what people want, name, address and potentially the amount of crypto they own for sale to the highest bidders.

lovely

out of literally thousands of pics taken with digital (camera or phone) maybe one of 200 are kept. thats whats important to me, i can take  dozens of pics of something and pick out the best one right away. analog with its 36 pics a roll (or whatever) and time lag makes you waste film and time to pick that best shot. thats the real advantage of digital. imo of course. oh and film changes in the heat of the moment sucked pond water. i had to bring a backup camera to events for when i hit the end of the roll and still needed to shoot if there was no time to change film in the primary camera.

sounds like IBM giving away the keys to the kingdom with DOS and its open hardware architecture for its original IBM PC. of course bill gates had a hand in that too, licensing DOS instead of selling it outright to IBM. opportunity is opportunity.

kinda like bitcoin and fiat actually. well, not really, but sort of. but hopefully one knows what i mean.

history has a lot of lessons, too bad most dont bother learning from it.

kodak making drugs and such now. wtf and didnt they sell rights to their name on some shitcoin a while back? kodakcoin or some crap?

mars. but we need to send some expendable peons to terraform it 1st.

my dad was still building and upgrading computers into his 70's. plus still into ham radio.

he helped me build my 1st custom PC, a 386SX back in the day (he had given me his IBM AT before that.. thats a 80286 for those younger folks). we kept each other up to speed in various tech till he passed away. we were also in a quake clan together for a long while.

never stop learning.

Jet Cash, keep on doing what youre doing. youre too young to stop playing with tech. or anything else for that matter.

well ok ya got me. i was never improved past that very early experimental prototype due to an unfortunate incident involving several.. well several umm.. reasons. yeah.

yeah that obviously fake human shaped cutout propped up next to him threw me off too. misdirection at its finest.

i would post a pic of me but as i am a highly classified experimental attack helicopter, i am not to be seen.

yes the no displaying sigs option rocks, ive had that enabled forum wide for years. much more enjoyable reading.

well polishing your lambo with that thousand dollar towel will probably still bring a smile to your face.

nope. the WO thread gives a heads up on big moves and i do check my fills and such when im checking the price. ill then redo the ladders if needed. but its a pretty good range with some set to pop on wild moves up or down as well as the more "normal" intervals.

i dont trust bots. (apologies to JJG)

same story more or less here. spent the last month or so slowly cashing some out for fiat for a project. just when i hit my fiat goal (@ maybe 9.4k per btc or so average) boom off goes the honey badger.

gooooood honeybadger 

when you really get down to it a lot of us early miners lost far more than that just playing with wallets, no current backups, whatever. lot of potential fiat (say at 10 grand per coin at todays value, but of course much less then as it was at like 10 bucks a coin) were willingly spent or lost  (testing wallets, pools, exchanges etc) to test the system.

not to minimize your loss. as that does suck.

it will suck starting from scratch again but try to start stacking again.

heh yeah. i dont regularly check the price (maybe once a week or even less); i have laddered sells and buys set and let it run on autopilot for the most part. but when in the space of like 6 hours there were 8 new pages in the WO i fired up a tab to my exchanges.

it was an enjoyable experience. and now a tab is always open on my main exchange, havent done that for a while.

in someones words: "weeeeeeee!"

uh.. you have three johnsons?

kinda small.. where will the yachts dock and heliport go?

i should be able to convert my avatar to .png and re upload it. as my brain overheats easily it might take a day or so however.

and lots going on in this weird new reality atm. but no worries that graph rocks!