Bitcoin full node and query server

Oct 15, 2024

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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.

evoskuil16:54

Core does not scale (up). That’s a problem going forward. To the extent that libbitcoin does not scale down (which remains to be seen), that’s a problem that will go away on its own. This is not a discussion regarding whether bitcoind has been useful, but whether it can survive. Ultimately it has to adapt, which is what we are doing. So it’s not at all clear to me what your issue is. The cost of hardware for a node with the specs I gave you is around $300 at most.

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