Masternodes vs Fullnodes

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6mIstn8qycnhoqxf7VBd

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Hello - new here. What's the difference between Masternodes and Fullnodes? Are they the same? I understand that 1000 Dash is required to run a Masternode, but is there also a separate notion of "Fullnode"?

Thanks!
 
Hello there,

Fullnodes are nodes with complete blockchain and Masternodes are basically fullnodes with additional functionality enabled:
- Anyone can run fullnode just like in bitcoin, nothing is stopping you from doing so;
- Anyone can run Masternode if they have 1000 DASH and configured fullnode accordingly (1000 DASH is used to activate that additional functionality so to say).
 
UdjinM6 said:
Hello there,

Fullnodes are nodes with complete blockchain and Masternodes are basically fullnodes with additional functionality enabled:
- Anyone can run fullnode just like in bitcoin, nothing is stopping you from doing so;
- Anyone can run Masternode if they have 1000 DASH and configured fullnode accordingly (1000 DASH is used to activate that additional functionality so to say).
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Ok, thanks. I'll play around with running a fullnode. May "upgrade" to a Masternode. How is that done? Just send 1000 DASH to an address controlled by the node?
 
Team @ duty ;) that what I like, quick and proffesional responses.
 
Thanks. I have a node (not a masternode yet) up and running. It's saying only 8 connections, though I set maxconnections=100 in the conf file, and all ports are open. Should I be seeing more connections as I would with a bitcoin node?
 
6mIstn8qycnhoqxf7VBd said:
Thanks. I have a node (not a masternode yet) up and running. It's saying only 8 connections, though I set maxconnections=100 in the conf file, and all ports are open. Should I be seeing more connections as I would with a bitcoin node?
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Well, give it some time, it could get a bit higher.
Also note:
1) there are ~2600 MNs
2) clients connect in round-robin-like manner to different MNs to mix coins (DS)
3) MNs connect to each other periodically to check if they comply or not (PoSe)
So MN usually tends to have better connectivity then regular fullnode because regular fullnode only tries to keep exactly 8 outbound connections and may also serve some inbound connections (up to [maxconnections - 8] ) i.e. it basically cares about itself only and doesn't participate in Dash network as much as MN.
 
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