Announcing "Bitcoin Node Day" August 30

[doof]

The inaugural Bitcoin Node Day, to be held on 30 August, is scheduled to be an annual event to raise awareness of bitcoin around the world.  In particular, the role that bitcoin nodes play in the bitcoin network.  Nodes are essentially the backbone of the network, without them, bitcoin would simply not exist.

The idea is to simply raise awareness about the decline in nodes, and encourage users to update their block chain to the latest block.  We are simply asking the community to run a full node like bitcoin core for the 24hrs. (Or XT, see other threads for that debate)

For more information see www.bitcoinnodeday.org

https://www.bitcoin.asn.au/press-release-bitcoin-node-day/

[jdebunt]

Great news! Will try to cover this on a few news sites asap

[eternalgloom]

Good idea, something like this is really needed.
Will participate for sure, hope other bitcoin enthusiasts will do as well

[jdebunt]

Managed to get an article about Bitcoin Node Day up on bitcoin.com :

https://www.bitcoin.com/news/bitcoin-node-day-raise-bitcoin-awareness-around-world/

Feel free to share it so we can make this a global event

[Delek]

I run a full node 24/7!! Core of course.

[dollarneed]

nice info for the comunity ,05 DAYS 02 HOURS 55 MINUTES 8 SECONDS lefts
hmm thats gonna be epic 

[asperous]

encourage users to update their block chain to the latest block. 

And download more ram?

[coinpr0n]

Great initiative! Already participating by running a full node and I'll be sure to spread the word via social media!

[LiteCoinGuy]

you can find a list of Hardware Nodes here :

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=899253.0

[zeraTunerse]

Good Idea as i can see that this will result in a rise in Bitcoin Price again ,I will run Core on VPNs to boost its existence , anyways i can see 222$ in BTC-e , hope it touches the sky again.