By December 2025, while most traders are still staring at K-line charts in CBD office buildings, grabbing millisecond opportunities, someone made a completely opposite choice—heading into the deep mountains at the border of Yunnan and Guizhou to run APRO nodes.

This is not romanticism. From a technical perspective, it is the last stubborn hold on decentralization.

The Bitcoin ecosystem has changed over the past two years. From the era of simply issuing inscriptions, it has evolved into a comprehensive deployment of BTCFi (Bitcoin Finance). Layer 2 networks, cross-chain bridges, liquidity protocols... the entire ecosystem is like thawed spring water flowing everywhere. High-performance decentralized oracle networks like APRO are the underlying data engines of this system. Every node operator is a neuron in this vast neural system.

Why must they go into the mountains? The most straightforward answer from a physical perspective: APRO nodes demand near-perfection in environmental stability and TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) security. The natural low temperatures in the mountains save huge costs on industrial air conditioning, but the real reason is deeper.

70% of global computing power nodes are squeezed into a few data center server rooms, with Amazon and Google dominating. This trend toward centralization contradicts the original intention of decentralization. The server on the mountain top, although geographically remote, is actually one step closer to the true decentralized dream.