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Totally with you on that. I wouldn’t put all my savings in a bank. Just enough for daily stuff. Huge savings in banks means losing value over time, thanks to inflation. Banks use our money, and what do we get? Zilch.

Been looking into Shor's Algorithm, and honestly, it's still a huge theoretical threat. It can solve the discrete logarithm problem, which means it can potentially derive private keys from public keys on vulnerable…

Totally agree. Last I checked, Bitcoin Core doesn’t even turn on RPC server by default. And if it’s enabled, it only listens to localhost. So any breaches are really due to bad setups by the node owners.

Full nodes do all the heavy lifting by verifying transactions and blocks. But to do this right, they need to run the consensus rules, manage the UTXO set, and gossip across the network. To keep everything trustworthy,…