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More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 year ago

So I finally run my own node

Today’s the day. Sync on the full 500gb chain complete after 22h. I spent a total of £110 for a mini PC with i3, 8gb RAM and 1TB SSD. I know it’s not a fancy raspberry pi4 on umbrel etc, but I’m happy with it as I can still connect the electrum...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 1 year ago

Noob question about wallet / public key balances

Just thinking about the blockchain - each block containing a number of transactions. I'm curious though - where are wallet balaces located? Does a wallet balance calculation have to crawl through multiple blocks to sum/minus transactions of coins...