Bitcoin full node and query server
Oct 11, 2024
View in context in the libbitcoin Slack #general mirror.
evoskuil12:37
It is likely that the default settings will be suboptimal for your machine, even resulting in thrashing. If you post your basic specs I can make suggestions. One of the aspects we are working on is automatically tuning what is presently manual configuration for given platform.
Also note that if your CPU supports sha native (shani), which is about 5x faster individual hashing, it will distort realistic benchmarking, since shani is not yet integrated into the hashing library.
C
cguida22:40
Bitcoin (node) does not provide for high volume (but can of course accommodate high cost small payments). Lightning is in some ways problematic, but under its assumption of infrequent on-chain transaction, I don’t see any conflict with the above observations.
The trouble is that anyone who wants to make money running a darknet microservices business (for example) would need to spend thousands of dollars on a server. I just think this limits the potential base of merchants who would do this to a few elites, and certainly does nothing to incentivize more people to run nodes, which of course threatens bitcoin's decentralization.