easyNode for BTX.
Run a node. Support the network.

Why run a node?

How it works

1. 1

   One click to set up

   The app downloads a checksum-verified snapshot of the blockchain and starts a full node. Ready the same evening, not next week. The full history backfills in the background.

2. 2

   It looks after itself

   Close the window and it asks whether to keep the node running in your menu bar or quit. It can keep your computer awake, start at login, keep itself up to date, and shows a calm live status: block height, peers, uptime, disk.

3. 3

   Stop anytime

   One click stops the node cleanly. Your disk space is yours. The app shows exactly what the chain uses and can reclaim data the node no longer needs.

Send, receive, and how updates reach you

The optional wallet sends and receives BTX straight from your node. Watch confirmations tick up live, and hear a quiet coin when a payment lands or clears. A running node reads LIVE at a glance, money in shows green and money out shows red, and closing the window asks whether to keep the node in your menu bar or quit.

The app updates itself on Mac. Windows and Linux cannot, today. A Mac copy checks for a new version, verifies its signature, and installs it on the next relaunch. Windows and Linux copies check the same place, find nothing listed for their platform, and quietly stay on the version you installed. They do not tell you that. Until it changes, the way to move a Windows or Linux node to a newer build is to come back to this page and download it. We know that is the wrong way round for the two platforms furthest behind.

Still one calm app on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Each platform's node is built from the official BTX source and boot-tested before it is allowed into the installer, including mining a test block.

Following the chain across the 2026 consensus changes

BTX changed how blocks are proven at height 185,000 on 10 August 2026, and added a difficulty floor at height 191,714 on 17 August. Both changes are done and the network moved on. A node whose engine was built before one of those lines reads everything past it as invalid, so it parks one block below and keeps looking perfectly healthy. That is why an old build sits at 184,999 or at 191,713 and never moves again.

The Mac build crosses both of those lines. Its engine is built here from an official BTX release tag, so a Mac node parked at 184,999 or at 191,713 is fixed by updating, and nothing on disk needs downloading again.

A third line, at block 199,299, is a different story. BTX published a difficulty rule change at that height on 25 August 2026 and withdrew it on 27 August. The engine in the current Mac build still carries the withdrawn rule, so it stops at that block. Getting past it needs a BTX release that is not out yet. Your coins are not affected either way. A node reads the chain, it does not hold your keys.

The Windows and Linux builds carry an older engine than the Mac one, from before the 17 August release, so those nodes stop at 191,713, or at 184,999 on a machine that checks blocks on its processor rather than on qualifying graphics hardware. Newer builds for those two platforms are not published yet.

Keeper mode has been built in on Mac since 0.6.8. One switch in Settings turns your node into a small pruned one, roughly 10 GB of disk instead of roughly 105 GB, that serves the short signed confirmations other machines use to follow the chain. Those confirmations are the scarcest thing on this network. There is a longer write-up on the Keeper page, including the standalone macOS installer if you would rather run Keeper on its own.

Re-checking the new proofs by replaying the work still needs qualifying hardware, and that is the node software's rule, not ours. A Block checking line on the status screen names which mode your machine is in, so a node that is following along on signed confirmations rather than replaying proofs says so plainly instead of leaving you to guess.

If your node has stopped at a block and stays there, the block number tells you which case you are in. 184,999 or 191,713 means an engine from before 17 August, and a newer build for your platform is the whole fix where one exists. 199,299 is the withdrawn rule described above, and no build we can ship today gets past it. The free BTX Node Guardian tells you which case you are in on any BTX node, on any machine: whether the network is waiting or your node is behind.

Ask your node anything about BTX

Tap the ? in the header and your node answers the questions people usually ask an explorer website: how far along the chain is, how much BTX exists so far, when the next halving lands, what fees look like, how hard mining is right now, and any block you point it at. Every answer carries a small pill naming the exact source, and the green dot means one thing: this came from your own verified copy of the chain, not from someone else's server.

Your node matters more than it used to

Most machines now follow the chain using small signed confirmations passed from node to node, and the network is chronically short of nodes that serve them. Both halves of that have shipped on Mac. Since 0.6.7 the app reads its own node's signals and names why a chain is stuck, then re-dials the known archive peers itself rather than restarting anything. Since 0.6.8 the engine can serve those confirmations, which is the same job BTX Keeper does on Apple-silicon Macs with one command. Same engine, two ways to help.

The live node map shows how thin that layer still is. A census on 22 August 2026 counted 65 live nodes, 30 of them at the tip, with 12 verified archives between them.

Running a BTX node that is not ours at all, on any machine? The BTX Node Guardian is the stall logic from this app as a standalone script, free and open. It watches and reports, and it never restarts your node.

Built on proven parts

easyNode for BTX runs the same node engine as the easyBTX miner, the code that has been starting, watching, and healing BTX nodes on real Macs since the chain's early days. Same fast-start, same careful shutdowns, same disk care. Two ways to take part: mine with the miner, or verify with the node. Many people do both.

Where this is going: this app is the foundation for future ways to support the network, and if the network ever rewards node operators, this app is where that lands first. No promises, just the plan. First: the best one-click node we can build.