Arman The Parman, a Bitcoin educator and security expert, just shared the code for setting up a full node on a Mac. You can even swap out your current umbrel or mynode setup for a permanode if you want.
So, if you want to get a Bitcoin node running on your Mac, follow these steps: get a Mac with a 1TB internal or external drive, open up the terminal, and paste this command: curl https://parmanode.com/install.sh | sh. After that, just double-click the new desktop icon called run_parmanode to get it going.
By the way, you can also find info on how to manually connect different wallets to the node. Plus, there's an option for your permanode to automatically link up with your own wallet in the background. You can check out the details here: https://github.com/ArmanTheParman/Parmanode.
All the other helpful links are under the image below:
https://parmanode.com/
https://parmanode.com/install/
Looks interesting. As always if I ever have some of that thing called free time I might play around with it.
Seems to follow a bit with the nodes in a box theory of auto installing all the things without a lot of user intervention.
The more setups like this the better since it makes more people likely to run a node.
With that being said, unless I missed it, which is possible, not a lot of warnings about security and the environment it's running in.
-Dave
Non-technical-user-friendly, sounds interesting. This approach simplifies the process of setting up and maintaining a Bitcoin node on a Mac, making it more accessible to a wider audience.
And Linux!
I'm not sure why people are forgetting that it also works on Linux.
One platform it will not work on though is Windows, but I never rated Windows highly to be honest. The development platform is just crap, there's no way to install and run Unix programs without using something like Cygwin, MinGW, and nowadays Windows Subsystem for Linux. Though because of the graphical nature of some of these programs, I doubt whether this will work on any of these layers.
Very interesting idea, anyone know how many Apple users have a bitcoin node running? And linux one?.
I dont use Apple/mac things so i cant try. One thing it comes to my mind is, following the politics of Apple in general we have to think in the future some Apple upgrades to deny you use their computers to do this kind of things, you know...... Apple things.
That should not be so easy to find out. But the demand or interest seems to be confirmed with this project.
I think there will be quite a few Linux nodes. Just think of all the umbrel nodes that use umbrelOS. This includes all the Raspberry Pi's or any Ubuntu system.
In contrast of that: the total number of nodes that are accessible in the network can be determined.
Bitnodes.io gives a nice overview with some interesting statistics. How the nodes are distributed by country and so on.
44817 active nodes are currently available, these statistics are updated every day.
I couldn't agree more. Windows is good for gaming and ... well only for gaming.
Personally I don't have any computer available to try this, but it looks super promising and "elegantly hacky"