Types of Nodes:

Full Node: Has downloaded and verified the entire blockchain.

Currently 750GB

Pruned Node: Has downloaded and verified the entire blockchain, but has discarded older transactions to save disk space.

Typically 250 GB

Lightweight Node: Has downloaded a copy of the UTXO set, a full list of spendable coins. An attached wallet needs this to check the validity of a proposed transaction. This is not fully verified until it is broadcast on the Bitcoin network, where full or pruned nodes can confirm this transaction.

Currently 12GB, has grown from 4GB since Taproot launched in November 2021.

This is a major discussion point in the OP_RETURN debate

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Slightly heavier light mode: Uses compact block filters built and provided by full nodes to get a probabaliatic indication that a new block contains a transaction it is monitoring. If the probability is high, it downloads and verifies the entire block.

Interesting 🤔

Also known as BIP157/158 or Neutrino. Sort of inverts the concept of bloom filters used by outdated "SPV" nodes.

Right, now you’ve lost me

Techies 😂

🙄

This is how some mobile lightning wallets can claim to be a "node", like Zeus or Blixt.

Ah yes, I kinda understood the reality of this claim.

OP_R does not fix this

4) Clown node: A bitcoin node running core version 29.0

really not any kind of point

2tb drives aren't that expensive, i think about $150 or so you can get them now, but don't even need them for a full unpruned node

i don't want shitcoin trash on the blockchain because it's fiat trust based systems, that's the whole point of bitcoin, no trust, you have to trust shitcoiners, and you can't and that's why they like it that way, because they are psychopath trust bandits

My node is sitting at 697gb atm, I'll have to check actual disk size.

When running on commercial grade hardware stacks, redundant storage can get expensive. I was able to manage some "spare" storage in my arrays for bitcoin but fast + redundant + commercial hardware = $$$$

I may be the only one who has this problem though

Disk usage reporting may vary.

1MB is actually 1,048,576 Bytes (2^20)

Yes, most home nodes don't bother with redundancy.

My redundancy comes in the form of multiple nodes in multiple locations.

Oh yeah maybe I'm doing my math wrong. I hacked my own API and dashboard for my core node.

I hate you.

You have virtue signalled your stupidity, while simultaneously boasting about the API you rewrote 😂

yeah guess I did didn't. If it helps I don't give a shit about any of this war or what anyone thinks about what software I run, it wasn't my intention XD

What if I said it was my own fork of core?

So you're this guy 😂

here:

https://coin.dance/nodes

so basically taproot is a work in progress and doesn't actually fully exist yet.