So I had went through the steps in this "IOTA Full Node Copy-Paste Installation Guide" and got the full node installed and running.

I had earlier read in this "Making a Transaction" article here at iota.readme.io about what it said about Proof of Work:

Proof of Work: In order to have your transaction accepted by the network, you need to do some Proof of Work - similar to Hashcash, not Bitcoin (spam and sybil-resistance). This usually takes a few minutes on a modern pc.

So I had assumed that having PoW enabled on full nodes is what keeps the transactions flowing and the network "doing stuff".

Then earlier today I read this other question "How do I enable my fullnode to do POW?" and noticed that, based on its instructions, PoW never got enabled on my full node.

Apparently those installation steps do not enable PoW by default.

So here are some questions I would like to ask:

1. Why would enabling PoW not be included in full node installation instructions?
2. Does a full node with PoW disabled still contribute to the network, and if so, in what way?

So I had went through the steps in this "IOTA Full Node Copy-Paste Installation Guide" and got the full node installed and running.

I had earlier read in this "Making a Transaction" article here at iota.readme.io about what it said about Proof of Work:

Proof of Work: In order to have your transaction accepted by the network, you need to do some Proof of Work - similar to Hashcash, not Bitcoin (spam and sybil-resistance). This usually takes a few minutes on a modern pc.

So I had assumed that having PoW enabled on full nodes is what keeps the transactions flowing and the network "doing stuff".

Then earlier today I read this other question "How do I enable my fullnode to do POW?" and noticed that, based on the answer to the question, PoW never got enabled on my full node.

I am saying this because after completing the installation, the REMOTE_LIMIT_API property (in the /home/iota/node/iota.ini file) looked like this:

REMOTE_LIMIT_API = "removeNeighbors, addNeighbors, interruptAttachingToTangle, attachToTangle, getNeighbors, setApiRateLimit"

Based on those instructions in the answer to the other question, to enable PoW I would have to remove the attachToTangle and interruptAttachingToTangle values from the REMOTE_LIMIT_API property.

So here are some questions I would like to ask:

1. Why would enabling PoW not be included in full node installation instructions?
2. Does a full node with PoW disabled still contribute to the network, and if so, in what way?

So I had went through the steps in this "IOTA Full Node Copy-Paste Installation Guide" and got the full node installed and running.

I had read in this "Making a Transaction" article here at iota.readme.io about what it said about Proof of Work:

Proof of Work: In order to have your transaction accepted by the network, you need to do some Proof of Work - similar to Hashcash, not Bitcoin (spam and sybil-resistance). This usually takes a few minutes on a modern pc.

So I had assumed that having PoW enabled on full nodes is what keeps the transactions flowing.

Then earlier today I read this other question "How do I enable my fullnode to do POW?" and noticed that, based on its instructions, PoW never got enabled on my full node.

Apparently those installation steps do not enable PoW by default.

Question:

1. Why would enabling PoW not be included in full node installation instructions?
2. Does a full node with PoW disabled still contribute to the network, and if so, in what way?

So I had went through the steps in this "IOTA Full Node Copy-Paste Installation Guide" and got the full node installed and running.

I had earlier read in this "Making a Transaction" article here at iota.readme.io about what it said about Proof of Work:

Proof of Work: In order to have your transaction accepted by the network, you need to do some Proof of Work - similar to Hashcash, not Bitcoin (spam and sybil-resistance). This usually takes a few minutes on a modern pc.

So I had assumed that having PoW enabled on full nodes is what keeps the transactions flowing and the network "doing stuff".

Then earlier today I read this other question "How do I enable my fullnode to do POW?" and noticed that, based on its instructions, PoW never got enabled on my full node.

Apparently those installation steps do not enable PoW by default.

So here are some questions I would like to ask:

1. Why would enabling PoW not be included in full node installation instructions?
2. Does a full node with PoW disabled still contribute to the network, and if so, in what way?