0 sats \ 5 replies \ @richnost 18 Feb 2023 \ on: Quick question to whoever has a full node running bitcoin
This sounds reasonable. Higher spec machines might be able to get through the whole chain in a day or so, but older or less-powerful hardware can take a few days.
This is why bitcoiners get prickly about block size. The more bloated a chain gets, the more it raises the barrier to entry, centralizing the network around a smaller amount of machines capable of IBD and timely validation.
I m guessing the main thing to upgrade here would be the CPU because the SSD is a brand new one.
I m running it on a i5 6500 but you are right the bigger the blockchain/blocksize gets the longer it would take you to validate all of it.
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Thinking more about this. Have you tried connecting the machine directly to the home router? Wifi can be a bottleneck.
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Well I use a extender but yes its connected through ethernet. Wifi would only get me about 100MB/s
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Your bandwidth and cache allocated in the bitcoin.conf might also be a factor.
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Hope I can get some more out of that, will look into it.
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