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 A Bitcoin node will detect bugs in the matrix

since I'm not seeing any serious memory or disk issues, and assuming there are no bugs in bitcoin-core, I wonder if my bitcoin node is getting hit by cosmic rays and bits are getting flipped every now and then, leading to leveldb checksum errors.

I looked into ECC ram but I may need to build a home server, since it's not common in desktops motherboards.

Is this is why you’ve been going on about ecc memory nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj ? I found a post about it from greg maxwell 10 years ago as well, saying all his non-laptop machines use ecc memory:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2jpk54/risks_of_running_bitcoin_client_on_a_computer/cle3qyb/ nostr:note1ktns7scrqr00h9a400eajn8k23hcxzzp35syfr7j4tvzjkdpjjdsj4z0sf