You don’t want to be wacked off to only run Monero nodes over VPN or TOR, but it is our fallback.

They couldn’t stop torrents. They couldn’t stop MP3’s.

They won’t stop Monero, unless the people bend the knee. You bend the knee when you don’t have the cajones to run a Monero node.

Who’s ready to risk a little for freedom?

  • @Saki@monero.townEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Advantages:

    • More decentralization: more resistant to censorship, that 51% thing; more community-based, possible “warm and fuzzy” feelings; for the network, more nodes = more anonymity
    • You don’t need to trust (rely on) local [Edit: I mean remote] nodes to use XMR; for you, more privacy in a way & more safety
    • If desired, p2pool to earn a bit

    Disadvantages:

    • A lot of (read-)write access; potentially shortening SSD lifespan
    • Maybe electric bill - if you think about this only economically
    • Others including your local ISP may know that you’re running a node; in a way less privacy/anonymity for you - in theory this shouldn’t be a problem if you live in a “free” country (you’re doing nothing illegal) - in some other countries like China, you might have to be astute to run a node
      • @Saki@monero.townEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Right. If your computer is powered on anyway, running a node itself is not a big deal as far as electricity is concerned.

        @dMartian@monero.town When someone is posting a link to Twitter (X), it’ll be nice if they copy-paste the tweet itself too, so that everyone can safely read it.

          • @Saki@monero.townEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            Thanks :) It’s great that nitter.net stopped blocking Tor again! I happened to notice that a while ago too, via c/monerochan https://monero.town/post/901193 - ideally privacy advocates should stop using Twitter itself though…

            The most centralized part of the Monero network may be mining (i.e. potential weakness, as a centralized pool is an easy target for “them” to shut down), without which the network wouldn’t work. Ideally, if possible, users may want to consider running p2pool too, not just a full node. Like monerod, p2pool can be a background task, not using full cores, so one can still use their computer like normally, even if it’s not a dedicated box for mining.