I had trouble finding system resource information about running a liquid node so I’ll document some info here:
~27GB disk space
~6GB RAM free for IBD
The IBD is RAM hungry, so best to have spare free space and swap setup.
Discussion
That’s a beefy machine to keep up.
Liquid made the trade off of a centralized federation for quick blocks, over the slower decentralized main chain.
Which is a smart fit into the layered money paradigm.
How long are you going to run the node?
It’s actually not as bad as I thought it would be. I’m running bitcoind, cln (with no channels, only for gossip), mempool, fulcrum, and elementsd on a single computer that costs easily costs less than $300 used with ~$150 2TB NVMe upgrade.
No idea how long I will run it. My main motivation is to experiment with peerswap via liquid.