Unlike mining, running a bitcoin node is not very costly (it’s typically in the $150-400 range ). However, nodes are equally if not more important than miners in achieving decentralization. The roles of nodes are to: Validate transactions.
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A Raspberry Pi has enough processing power to operate a Bitcoin node and only costs about $50 .
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7 nodes (servers/computers), all connected to each other, running a blockchain together.5 Eyl 2018
Read moreHow do nodes work in crypto?
A blockchain consists of numerous blocks of data. These blocks of data are stored on nodes that can be compared to small servers. On a blockchain, all the nodes are connected to each other and they continuously exchange the newest information on the blockchain with each other .
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