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Transaction bandwidth is the primary inefficiency for continuously running nodes, yeah. Especially if you are using EC2 pricing.

• BubRoss 7y ago
  $5 a month can buy a VPS that runs a node with 1% of all of its resources.
  • RL_Quine 7y ago
    Barely. The resource requirements for running a meaningfully performant node outstrip what you're getting on digitalocean. Most Bitcoin nodes as a result are horrendously slow compared with running on reasonable hardware.
    • BubRoss 7y ago
      Slow in what way? A computer from 15 years ago or old rasberry pi can run a node. What can't handle verifying one tiny block every 10 minutes while sending out data?
    • londons_explore 7y ago
      As far as I can see, running a bitcoin node requires looking up ~10 transaction inputs per second in a precomputed index, and running a handful of EC computations per second. Shouldn't be difficult for even fairly ancient hardware. The storage requirements for all live transaction outputs is possibly a limiting factor. Am I missing something? Is the issue not the theoretical amount of computation required, but the fact implementations have significant overhead?
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