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small fixes in bakers.md
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NicNomadic authored Feb 4, 2025
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Bakers must run at least one Tezos node and a baker daemon to go with it.
These daemons must run at all times with a stable power source and internet connection, because periods of inactivity for a baker entail losses of rewards, and eventually being marked as inactive and temporarily excluded from baking.

## Staking with a baker

If you don't have enough tez to become a baker or don't want to run a baking node, you can choose a baker as your delegate, which makes you a _delegator_.
Then you can stake tez with that baker and receive a share of the baker's rewards.

For instructions on staking, see [Staking](/using/staking).

## Delegating to a baker

In older versions of the Tezos protocol, before users could stake with a baker, delegating was the primary way that users earned rewards for their tez.
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Delegating still works in this way, but currently, it's mostly seen as a preliminary step required for staking.
In return, the Tezos protocol provides stakers with rewards automatically.

## Staking with a baker

If you don't have enough tez to become a baker or don't want to run a baking node, you can choose a baker as your delegate, which makes you a _delegator_.
Then you can stake tez with that baker and receive a share of the baker's rewards.

For instructions on staking, see [Staking](/using/staking).

## Summary

In summary, here is a comparison between the staking and delegating options above:
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For more information about the different options to participate to the Tezos network (baking, staking, or delegating), see [Running Octez](https://tezos.gitlab.io/introduction/howtorun.html) in the Octez documentation.

For full details about baking, see [Node and Baking](https://opentezos.com/node-baking/baking/introduction/) on opentezos.com.
To learn more about baking and the related concepts, see [Node and Baking](https://opentezos.com/node-baking/baking/introduction/) on opentezos.com.

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