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July 08, 2019, 02:57:09 PM |
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Once you have an up-to-date blockchain, then synchronisation and validation are the important factors. Running a slow node can have an impact on the Bitcoin infrastructure, and I suspect that this will lead to some peers dropping you. Enabling both inbound and outbound connectivity will make a difference. The way your ISP connects to the Internet backbone will become more important in the future, especially if we enter into an era of attempted government control. Given a reasonably modern machine with adequate ram and disk space, I don't think hardware makes a great deal of difference, but the use of a large SSD seems to speed things up. Firewalls and ISP throttles and bandwidth caps seem to be significant, and these are things I am investigating at the moment.
I'd be interested to hear of any tinkering that can be done to the core setup to improve peer interaction.
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