Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Why are we bleeding nodes?

From: Justus Ranvier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 17:50:05 +0000

On 04/07/2014 05:40 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
> The primary resources it needs are disk space and bandwidth, after
> an intensive initial day or two of building the database.

Check out the kind of hardware causal users are running these days.

The bottleneck is not bulk disk space, but rather IOPS.

Most users don't have spare machines to dedicate to the task of
running a full node, nor is it acceptable for them to not be able to
use their device for other tasks while the node is bootstrapping.

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