2 years ago
Nodes function as communication hubs, storing the blockchain, validating transactions, and relaying information. Conversely, miners provide computational power to create new blocks, validate transactions, maintain consensus, and secure the network.
Nodes are mainly used to query for data on the blockchain.
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2 years ago
are nodes computationally intensive?
2 years ago
Don't they require specialized hardware? <:mommy_confused:1023749002069540935>
2 years ago
They don't but it requires quite a bit of storage at least 500gb prob. better to reserve more & bandwidth too..
2 years ago
well then that isnt going to be cost effective to run on railway
2 years ago
For sure not
For storage yes, it will take more. I'm clocking in at 640.37gb for my local one right now. There's also a pruned version which can take significantly less space.
2 years ago
well you only get a 50gb volume on the pro plan, so good luck with convincing the team to give you more storage to run a bitcoin node 🤣
2 years ago
They are paying for GCE under the hood, that will be difficult :/
2 years ago
likely not a desirable workload anyway
2 years ago
@tansan might be worth having a look at the servers from netcup.eu. Their pricing is super competitive.
thanks! for me, I'm mainly looking for maximizing for the DX. I would prefer to run a pruned node on railway if its allowed
2 years ago
You can run a node, just be prepared to pay for it
2 years ago
🙂
2 years ago
official answer
2 years ago
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a year ago
you ended up using them? ^-^