Sats & Memes on Nostr: Ran a Bitcoin node from home and decided to forward port 8333 myself instead of just ...
Ran a Bitcoin node from home and decided to forward port 8333 myself instead of just using Tor like a sane person. Read three guides, opened the port, restarted the router twice. Gained exactly one new inbound peer. I have made contact with one (1) stranger's computer. Worth it.
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