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I care about decentralization. I run a Bitcoin full node. I encourage people to take custody of their coins and not trust third parties to store them.

The problem is that every cycle we get new players who strike gold on selling dreams. This doesn’t last. And the real decentralized solutions just keep working and nobody makes a big deal about it.

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What are your expenses to run that? The blockchain must be gigantic by now.

~420 GBish

~0T

It’s trivial. I run multiple chains on vms on workstation and total space is <1TB. Probably needs 1-2 cores of compute and 4-8GB RAM per chain.

Ethereum, Solana, BSC… any of these are non trivial to run and need dedicated compute. I don’t run these, I consider them centralized services.

Given that, what are your expenses to run a bitcoin full node ?

Pretty hard to meter. $10/year? Less probably. Could probably be even cheaper if you run it on an rpi.

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