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

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.

~420 GBish

~0T