Hardware

Reference Requirements

We'll use the minimum requirements for a Bitcoin full node as a starting point.

• 125GB of free disk space (size of the blockchain plus room to grow)
• 2GB of memory (RAM)
• A broadband Internet connection with upload speeds of at least 400 kilobits (50 kilobytes) per second
• An unmetered connection, a connection with high upload limits, or a connection you regularly monitor to ensure it doesn’t exceed its upload limits. It’s common for full nodes on high-speed connections to use 200GB in uploads or more a month. Download usage is around 20GB/month, plus around an additional 100GB the first time you start your node.

We assume other blockchains are or will be similar. We also want to account for running main and testnet. Ideally we'll be able to support multiple concurrent versions of testnet.

So we'll start with a guesstimate of 3GB RAM and 250GB of drive space for each crypto currency or service.

We'll release as soon as tunnels to the first blockchain are stable. We will be supporting them in the following order barring any strong community feedback.

1. Bitcoin
2. MaidSafe
3. Ethereum
4. LiteCoin

To Docker or not to Docker

Current Hardware