Hi all, i Just Setup my Server Pure. I Run a node and connected my Sparrow wallet to IT. All works great and was easy to do. So now i am more in controll of my Money. I choose the Rules i have a vois in the Network. All great i Just don’t feel it. Ist there a way to See a Bit more what my node does?
What Rules does IT enforce? I assume i would need do be able to Code and Check Git Hub and what my Version of Bitcoin core enforces and what Not.
I would Like a discription on my Version of Bitcoin core to verify that IT does what i want for example only allow 21 000 000 coins.
I did Not find what i want in bitcoin.org
Maybe someone here hast a good Link.
You’re running a node. Thanks you this, every transaction you create and broadcast via Sparrow is going out to the network and everyone else’s nodes. A mining node eventually picks it up and includes it in a block, verifying your transaction against the entire history of the chain. Other nodes download the new block, and they themselves verify it against the totality of the chain to arrive at consensus. By runing your own node, no-one can censor your broadcast, and no third-party node can lie to you about the state of the transaction, block or chain.
The fact that this works so well that it’s underwhelming is big praise.
Perhaps to feel it, you have to do a bit more… for example, install Electrs, then install Mempool. Browse the history of the blockchain in a graphical interface. Examine transactions, where they came from, where they went. Look up historic and infamous transactions.
You have Bitcoin Core running on a server. The codebase has the consensus rules in the codebase itself. You node will reject blocks that don’t match those rules. Yes, you’d need to be able to read the source code to see those rules coded, but you could also check the white paper to see the mathematical form before it was coded.
Bitcoin Core has a number of command line functions built into it. You can have it look things up, run checks and verify things. To do this you’d need to set up SSH first with this guide.
For example…
getblockchaininfo: This command provides comprehensive overview about the blockchain, including the current block height, the number of transactions, the difficulty, and other important metrics.
bitcoin-cli getblockchaininfo
getnetworkinfo: This command returns information about the network, including the number of connections, the version of the node, and other network-related statistics.
bitcoin-cli getnetworkinfo
getblock: This command retrieves detailed information about a specific block in the blockchain. You can provide the block hash or block height as an argument.
Rereading the whitepaper is a good Idea.
I was just wondering how i verify Future Bitcoin core releases If they are somehow changed. So i don’t accidentally Install the next Bitcoin Cash:-)
