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May 02, 2018, 07:51:32 PM
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I have a lot of traffic while running a full node. Is it normal?
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May 02, 2018, 07:55:26 PM
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If your node is not a pruned node (i.e archival node), then it serves historical blocks to new nodes on the network to help them bootstrap.
Which is why your upload bandwidth is high.
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May 02, 2018, 08:01:55 PM
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Assuming your node is not a pruned node and does allow incoming transactions (which is vital for contributing to the network health), yes. This is 'normal' traffic.
If thats too much traffic for you, you could disable the incoming connections.
But keep in mind that if you disable incoming connections your node basically just relays transactions. No blocks are shared with the rest of the network.
In this case you would just have a wallet which needs a lot of space on your hard drive. If you are not into contributing to the network health you can also use a pruned node (if you don't need the historical data).

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May 02, 2018, 11:51:28 PM
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ok thank you. I am in fact forwarding the port so I do have outgoing traffic. But I thought maybe I did something wrong as its a lot of data. No limit on my bandwidth and also its a spare pc so not a big problem. Thank you for your answers.
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May 03, 2018, 06:51:09 AM
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In addition, there's an almost complete information about running a full node on https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node.
It's worth the while if you got any other questions.

From the link (a little bit late):
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It's common for full nodes on high-speed connections to use 200 gigabytes upload or more a month. Download usage is around 20 gigabytes a month, plus around an additional 140 gigabytes the first time you start your node.
Indicates a heavy (mostly upload) traffic.

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