Run a node, support the network
LIVEEvery full node makes BTX harder to censor and easier to trust. easyNode turns running one from an evening of terminal commands into one click, then sits quietly in your menu bar using about as much power as an LED bulb. No mining, no account, and the built in wallet ships switched off.
Why run a node?
BTX has no node payout today. People run one anyway, for three honest reasons. You can watch the network grow on the easyBTX node map.
Decentralization is people
A chain is only as independent as the number of people who verify it themselves. Your node checks every block against the rules, with no trust in anyone else's server.
BTX is young
The network is small and growing, so right now each additional node meaningfully strengthens it. This is the moment where one person still moves the needle.
Quietly useful
Your node relays blocks and transactions to other peers, helps new nodes bootstrap, and keeps an independent copy of the chain's history alive.
Download easyNode
Pick your computer. Each build comes straight from the official GitHub releases and runs the official BTX v0.34.15 node engine inside. Only download from here or from GitHub, never from a copy someone sends you.
easyNode v0.7.12 was current on 12 October 2026. The app keeps itself up to date, and GitHub always has the newest build.
Lives in the menu bar with a calm live status. About as much power as an LED bulb.
Runs the official v0.34.15 engine. To have an NVIDIA card check blocks itself, run it under WSL2.
One AppImage, nothing else to install. The .deb package ships alongside it.
Verify before you run it. easyNode is an indie build, so your OS may warn on first run. Check the published checksums on the release page before opening it. Updates the app installs itself are signature verified.
A node in minutes
Three steps from download to verifying the chain yourself.
One click to set up
The app downloads a checksum-verified snapshot of the blockchain and starts a full node. Usable in minutes, not a day; the full history backfills in the background.
It looks after itself
It sits in your menu bar with a calm live status: block height, peers, uptime and disk. It can start at login, keep your computer awake, keep itself up to date and clean up data the node no longer needs.
Stop anytime
One click stops the node cleanly. The app shows exactly what the chain uses on disk and can reclaim the space again in one click.
What easyNode does
Everything the shipped app actually gives you. No vaporware.
Ask your node
Supply, the next halving, fees, difficulty or any block: your node answers from your own verified copy of the chain, with the exact source named on every answer.
Optional wallet, off by default
Flip one switch to create a post quantum BTX wallet or import your .btxwallet file. Send and receive with balances read from your own node, never a public explorer.
Explorer mode
Turn it on and your node builds a transaction index in the background for looking up old transactions. The switch works both ways and the node keeps running while it builds.
Self-updating
The app checks for a new version, verifies its signature and installs it on the next relaunch, so you never hunt for a fresh build.
The honest part
What a full node really costs you, stated before you download.
Disk
A full node keeps every block. The chain measures about 124 GiB and grows about 8 MB a day, which is the measured average since 10 August rather than the 1 GB a day this page used to claim. One switch in Settings makes it a pruned node instead, roughly 10 GB, and the app can remove the chain data again in one click.
Power
Measured on an ordinary Mac: about as much power as an LED bulb. No GPU load, no fans, no mining.
Bandwidth
A one time snapshot download at setup, about 9 MB on current builds, then ordinary peer to peer traffic while the node backfills history in the background. The Linux app itself is a large download, about 466 MB, because the engine travels inside it.
No rewards
BTX has no node incentive today. Running a node is for the network, not for a payout. If that ever changes, the app is where it will land first.
We measured the real cost on an ordinary Mac: about as much power as an LED bulb, and wrote up what one more node actually does for a young network. Nothing leaves your computer except normal node traffic.
Prefer the command line?
easyNode wraps the official reference node. You can always build and run it from source instead, or take part by mining.