Welcome to the first episode of the Bitcoin Node Runner podcast. PerkINsights and BitLovin are here to make running a full Bitcoin node make sense for regular people. One host asks the 101 questions, the other goes deeper for anyone ready for it.

We start with the difference between owning Bitcoin the asset and understanding the network underneath it, why decentralization makes the network hard to shut down, and what a protocol actually is. Then we walk through the three main participants using a bridge analogy: developers as the architects who write the rules, miners as the builders who put the blocks together, and nodes as the inspectors who verify everything before it gets added.

We also get into what makes node verification so remarkable. Every ten minutes or so, your node audits the entire Bitcoin supply. That kind of resistance  ...