On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 06:03:18PM +1100, Patrick Shirkey via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> This is very useful information but from my experience it is not viable to
> have a full node running full time on a desktop system i.e sharing the
> system with a normal desktop workload.
>
> With a very powerful
On Thu, February 11, 2016 8:15 am, Chris Belcher via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> I've been asked to post this to this mailing list too. It's time to
> clear up some misconceptions floating around about full nodes.
>
> === Myth: There are only about 5500 full nodes worldwide ===
>
> This number comes
"With a very powerful "Desktop" machine bitcoin-qt dominates CPU/GPU
resources."
That doesn't match my experience.
System responsiveness / user experience can suffer when running bitcoin-qt
on a spinning hard disk. Disk I/O load will cause the whole system to grind
and severely disrupt the user
I've been asked to post this to this mailing list too. It's time to
clear up some misconceptions floating around about full nodes.
=== Myth: There are only about 5500 full nodes worldwide ===
This number comes from this and similar sites: https://bitnodes.21.co/
and it measured by trying to
