so that you can participate in the Bitcoin network you shouldn't even have to have a 200 gigabyte hard drive so that you can participate in the network by running the so-called full full node software what happens when when you have a world full of people that are trying to participate in a network on an equal footing like that is you develop a mesh network that starts to look a little bit like the diagram we have here this is a very small-scale imagining of that that the typical Bitcoin interaction if you consider the payment case is usually