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There are, however, miners who either mine in teams, or miners who do have the proper equipment and manage to get a lot of bitcoins and stay ahead of costs, doing it as a profitable activity. When it comes to bandwidth consumption, bitcoin mining isn't the worst thing in the world and, as a matter of fact, it barely even. How much internet bandwidth does bitcoin mining use. Whereas the process of actually mining the Bitcoins is a job of the hardware.

Ad campaign: We previously collected donations to fund Bitcoin advertising efforts, but we no longer accept donations. The funds already donated will be spent on some sort of advertising, as intended. As of now, 7 BTC was spent out of 4.

If you have ideas for the remaining BTC,. How about a node Union? You join the node union, and agree to run your node in a certain way. The union, once powerful enough, can extort fees from miners and merchants, (call it selling advertising if you want) and pay nodes to run.

For instance, unionized nodes will delay relaying empty blocks, and expensive transactions. Alternatively, expedite relaying certain other transactions. A member of a node union can collude with other members. For instance by tracking entry points, and obscuring entry points. Even selling entry point data to the highest bidder, or promising not to (for a fee, of course). Just some thread hijaacking thoughts.

It's more like the other way around: nodes decide which transactions to include in new blocks, while miners just do whatever the nodes tell/allow them. How To Make Money Off Metaverse ETP ETP Mining there. Nowadays, due to skyrocketing difficulty, miners kind of have the say, but still just as far as the node they are mining for will allow them. Of course, if you get enough miners (like, become a pool), you can. Well, make a 51% attack on the network, sure.

Also you could get enough nodes, and become Dogecoin, or any of the others;) Oh, you still want to know why you can't earn bitcoins by running a non-mining node? Well, it's just that only having a copy of the blockchain, verifying and relying transactions, are not all that highly valued.