In hope that more people are looking for these kinds of answers... sharing here:
Questions:
https://peakd.com/@anmolsingh01/tao2gq
Answers:
https://peakd.com/witness/@forykw/re-anmolsingh01-taoh9d
Also welcome feedback of my answers, as this is a way for me to improve how I explain things to others.
Good explanation, I understood a bit more too. Could you clarify something for me, sorry for my ignorance, to authenticate the node, do you need specific software or hardware? Thank you.
The OS most of us use ubuntu because its much easier/tested. But you can run on other things... even Windows. And you can also run everything under docker images, which the API node code is prepared for too.
Hardware, depends. But nothing short of 64GB just for the API node. 8 cores or more... of a recent CPU I would say is the minimum to start playing. And a good 4TB of NVMe storage (suggest more even for backups).
Didn't quite catch the "authenticate" part, can you rephrase that?
No worries about questions... Ask away!
Thank you very much for the explanation. The term "authenticate" wasn't the best choice; I would have preferred "create the block."
Ah, then yes, you need specific code to produce blocks, yes (https://github.com/openhive-network/hive). Hardware not so much, as the requirements just for witnessing are very very low (8-16GB, and 2-4 cores will more than do).
Thank you very much for your attention. I don't intend to be a witness. I just wanted to better understand how the blocks work.
You can ask away if you want. But I would suggest you to ask an AI agent... it knows about HIVE very well, and can give answers very quickly.
I will give it a try with Grok just to show you how simple it is...
You can even point to a repo and ask it to explain a function!
Thanks for your willingness to teach. I already knew that part about the function and organization of witnesses. My question was about the tools to implement the blocks, both software and hardware.
Which you have kindly clarified for me.
By the way, you are my witnesses 🫡
Anytime. Its probably something I will enjoy during forever, which is why this ecosystem excites me.
Tambem podemos falar em Portugues se quiseres !LOL