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Noerms

Does running a node afford maintenance? Or is it a set it and forget it thing? 🤔

Pextar 2y ago

If you just running a bitcoin node then it’s pretty much set and forget👍🏻

But if you are thinking about running a lightning node then it’s much more to be done. But in the end it’s worth it👌⚡️

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Noerms 2y ago

Oooohh. i didn’t specify, talking about Bitcoin node here 😅

Pextar 2y ago

You can set up a bitcoin node on any computer. As long as you have it running at least 6h a day you’re good👍🏻

Have it running 24/7 is obviously the best👌

Noerms 2y ago

How big needs the harddrive to be? 1 Terra Byte enough?

Pextar 2y ago

1TB should last a couple of years👍🏻

Noerms 2y ago

Noice 🙏🫂💜

Joseph A Nagy Jr 2y ago

Not true. I had a bitcoin node running on a 500GB drive and it filled it up in 6 months. Probably should turn on pruning and keep it to about 100GB or so.

Pextar 2y ago

That’s because the blockchain is 533GB as we speak. Max 4MB per block so you can count how long 1TB would last!

Joseph A Nagy Jr 2y ago

Which means that 1TB would be full in about 1 year.

Pextar 2y ago

Around 200gb if all blocks are maxed, per year!

mutatrum 2y ago

If you need a full node and want to do blockchain sleuthing yes, or better 2TB. If you want to verify incoming transactions 100MB is fine with a pruned node.

Noerms 2y ago

So i can run sparrow with a pruned node ?

Pextar 2y ago

I’m running a full node but it should work with a pruned node as well!