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Railway12mo ago
tansan

Are Bitcoin Full Nodes allowed (not miners)?

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.
19 Replies
Percy
Percy12mo ago
Project ID: N/A
tansan
tansanOP12mo ago
N/A
Brody
Brody12mo ago
are nodes computationally intensive?
Fragly
Fragly12mo ago
Don't they require specialized hardware? <:mommy_confused:1023749002069540935>
Bronce
Bronce12mo ago
They don't but it requires quite a bit of storage at least 500gb prob. better to reserve more & bandwidth too..
Brody
Brody12mo ago
well then that isnt going to be cost effective to run on railway
Bronce
Bronce12mo ago
For sure not
tansan
tansanOP12mo ago
I don't believe so. I run it in the background while programming. No, they don't. This is different than a miner. 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. Can't beat Railway's DX which is why I was considering it
Brody
Brody12mo 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 🤣
Bronce
Bronce12mo ago
They are paying for GCE under the hood, that will be difficult :/
Brody
Brody12mo ago
likely not a desirable workload anyway
tansan
tansanOP12mo ago
ic ic
Bronce
Bronce12mo ago
@tansan [build mode] might be worth having a look at the servers from netcup.eu. Their pricing is super competitive.
tansan
tansanOP12mo 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
angelo
angelo12mo ago
You can run a node, just be prepared to pay for it 🙂
Brody
Brody12mo ago
official answer
Fragly
Fragly12mo ago
™️
tansan
tansanOP2mo ago
ooo thansk for the shout
Bronce
Bronce2mo ago
you ended up using them? ^-^
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