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Re:Due to Bitcoin network fees, customer loses $10 trying to... by Amezarak on Thursday November 23, 2017 @08:21PM (#15768897)
> Also, running a full Bitcoin node on a machine with a spinning rust disk and a relatively small amount of RAM is going to be hell

Is anyone even actually doing that? Even several years ago when I last did it, the blockchain was 60+GB (now it's more than twice that) and you were never, ever going to get anything out of it other than heating the room up.

The way I thought most people were going was using something like Electrum, where you still have your own private wallet that nobody else controls, but you're not yourself a full node.

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Re:Due to Bitcoin network fees, customer loses $10 trying to... by SomeStupidPoint on Thursday November 23, 2017 @08:45PM (#15768971)
Running a 120GB DB on spinning rust to the level of a dozen tx per minute is a jokingly light load on modern hardware, and dead simple to set up in the cloud.

You don't even do anything with most of the DB once you have it.

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