Are Bitcoin Full Nodes allowed (not miners)?
tansandoteth
PROOP

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.

23 Replies

tansandoteth
PROOP

2 years ago

N/A


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


tansandoteth
PROOP

2 years ago

I don't believe so. I run it in the background while programming.


tansandoteth
PROOP

2 years ago

No, they don't. This is different than a miner.


tansandoteth
PROOP

2 years ago

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.


tansandoteth
PROOP

2 years ago

Can't beat Railway's DX which is why I was considering it


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


tansandoteth
PROOP

2 years ago

ic


tansandoteth
PROOP

2 years ago

ic


2 years ago

@tansan might be worth having a look at the servers from netcup.eu. Their pricing is super competitive.


tansandoteth
PROOP

2 years ago

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


You can run a node, just be prepared to pay for it


🙂


2 years ago

official answer


2 years ago

™️


tansandoteth
PROOP

a year ago

ooo thansk for the shout


a year ago

you ended up using them? ^-^


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