I was just thinking about setting up a node in order to "vote" for bitcoin unlimited, my favourite solution in the blocksize debate. As I can see
here seems like very few people are running a full node, I can't understand why. I read instructions on
https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node , but I can't understand some things:
- I have roughly 6 mbit/s for download and 0.8 for upload, will it suffice? Will my connection still be usable for surfing etc?
It will take a while until you have cought up, but it should be enough to hold 8 connections to the network. You might have to turn the node off if you do other things that need a high bandwith (e.g. video steaming).
- how much hours/day have my node to be running to be considered an active node?
Depends on who you ask. Some say if you dont accept at least 100 connections from the outside (slightly exaggerated) you are not even running a full node or only "leech" the network. I think its nonsense. Every node helps, even if you only run it for a few hours a day.
-can I run more than one node?
Yes, but they would share the already little bandwith you have so it makes no sense to do so.
Why less than 500 people are running a node different from core?
Other implementations are unpopular among node operators.