What purpose do Bitcoin home nodes serve? In a tweet today, Ripple Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz rejected arguments by Jerry David Chan that Bitcoin home nodes do not matter to the Bitcoin network, saying “miners won’t mine blocks node operators won’t pay them for.” “Nonsense. You can refuse to accept any tokens rewarded […]The post Ripple CTO Kicks Against Opinion That Non-Mining Nodes On The Bitcoin Network Do Not Matter first appeared on The Crypto Basic.