Running Validators at Home 101

[ethanhunt561]

What are your thoughts on the following?

1. For a newcomer, is it more feasible to become a validator than a miner to get involved in the crypto space?

2. Where should a newcomer go to educate himself on becoming a validator?

3. Which projects are the most popular to run validators for?

4. I do also have offices, it is better to run them versus home connections?

[SFR10]

1. For a newcomer, is it more feasible to become a validator than a miner to get involved in the crypto space?

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By "validator" you're referring to running a node, am I right? Since you're asking about two different things within a system, you might want to give us some information before we could "accurately" answer all of your questions ^{[apart from #2]}...

a) What's your motivation behind the creation of this thread ^{[e.g. an incentive of some sort, for fun and etc...]}?
b) Each one of them, comes with certain risks ^{[what's your limit?]}.
c) Are you willing to invest a certain amount or you just want to start with whatever that you already have?
d) Which type of mining and node you're referring to ^{[broad subjects]}?

[pawanjain]

What are your thoughts on the following?

1. For a newcomer, is it more feasible to become a validator than a miner to get involved in the crypto space?

2. Where should a newcomer go to educate himself on becoming a validator?

3. Which projects are the most popular to run validators for?

4. I do also have offices, it is better to run them versus home connections?

Yes it's a great thing for beginner to become a full node (validator). Mining would require deeper knowledge and bigger investment.
To get your hands on bitcoin you can become a full node and contribute towards the community.
Although it won't make you earn anything but will make you help the community and increase your knowledge on bitcoin.

To run your full node you can download bitcoin core from it's official repository and configure it.
I will provide a few links to the guides below to get started.

The bitcoin core is the official project to run the full node.

Yes, there's no harm in running a full node either from your home or from your office. Only a stable internet connection and good amount of storage is required to keep the full node running.

Guides :
https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node
https://bitcoin.org/en/posts/how-to-run-a-full-node

Download :
https://bitcoin.org/en/download