/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>54662866

I am running some nodes. I had them turned off for some time but I am downloading them back. I just had a good idea, I was thinking of just getting multiple family and friends to start nodes, then use each other as peers for our nodes, start there after explaining how monero works and how good it is for privacy and stuff. Then soon after start doing things for each other like buying stuff from each other or hell even selling labor and services to each other for monero. I could have a network of peers whom I mostly know in person that I can trade either cash in person or barter with for monero. Mow a lawn, paint a house, for monero. Buy weed from a dispensary, with monero. Basically build a whole economy separate from the USD in small rural communities where people are sick of the fucking gubmint spying, prying and fucking with their money. I guess after I get good enough at setting up and configuring nodes to work optimally thru tor and i2p I could be the community node IT guy. Of course we’d not just be each other’s peers we’d diversify the peer group to branch outside your own network.

I just started a pruned node. It seems to be downloading fast at start got to like 37% in a couple hours but now I seem to be stuck at like 52%. I type check_blockchain_pruning and it says “blockchain pruned”. It’s making me wonder.. pruned blockchains will never be 100% right?