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Tron08

My hardware isn't much too write home about: Laptop: \- AMD Ryzen 7 260 w/ Radeon 780M and NPU Compute Accelerate Device \- NVIDIA RTX 5060 \- 16GB RAM Desktop: \- AMD Ryzen 5 7500F \- Radeon RX 6700 XT 12GB \- 32GB RAM

riscten

Look at moneybags over there with 16GB of RAM.

elchapine

This is why the cost of RAM has gone up.

Strong_Bug27

Is there a way to check that? The SSD is brand new, I bought it just for this few months ago. The RAM is whatever was in the ThinkPad probably nothing fancy since it’s an old used ThinkPad that I wiped clean

metalzip

you have bad RAM or bad disk.

pdath

It sounds like you might have an actual hardware problem. See if you can find a tool to test the RAM. See if you can find a tool to retrieve the HDD SMART statistics.

DotJata

RAM is the new cash didn't ya know?

CrazyAppel

especially considering the overspending on GPU's (and RAM) for AI datacenters, they will be repurposed for decentralized GPU compute marketplaces like io

Top-Care-8946

I think that AI is more killing fiat currencies. If we see how small but important components like chips and RAM modules prices are skyrocketing, many components are out of stock (currently in deficit). That means USD/EUR are useless and do not have buying power anymore. While BTC itself has still high ranked value. My confidence towards BTC is high even if current price drops can set a little concerns. I will continue to buy BTC. But if something happens to the blockchain like being cracked with AI then yes it can be irreversible and may affect crypto market with negative consequences.

Alarming-Jello-5846

This was years ago, well before the jump in RAM prices. Agreed it’s probably more now. One of the rare instances where the hardware cost was limiting factor - the cost of the crypto and software knowhow is comparatively trivial.

FeelingVanilla2594

When was last time? Because the cost of RAM has 10x’ed over the last year thanks to AI, so it might be a bit more than $10k.

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Post is by: Famous_Aardvark_8595 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1ree693/project_sovereign_mohawk_formally_verified/ I wanted to share a project I’ve been building called [**Sovereign Mohawk**](https://rwilliamspbg-ops.github.io/Sovereign-Mohawk-Proto/). It’s a Go-based runtime (using Wasmtime) designed to solve the scaling and trust issues in edge-heavy federated learning. Most FL setups hit a wall at a few thousand nodes due to $O(dn)$ communication overhead and vulnerability to model poisoning. **What’s different here:** * **O(d log n) Scaling:** Using a hierarchical tree-based aggregation that I’ve empirically validated up to 10M nodes. This reduced metadata overhead from \~40 TB to 28 MB in our stress tests. * **55.5% Byzantine Resilience:** I've implemented a hierarchical Multi-Krum approach that stays robust even when more than half the nodes are malicious. * **zk-SNARK Verification:** Every global update is verifiable in \~10ms. You don't have to trust the aggregator; you just verify the proof. * **Ultra-Low Resource:** The streaming architecture uses <60 MB of RAM even when simulating massive node counts. **Tech Stack:** * **Runtime:** Go 1.24 + Wasmtime (for running tasks on any edge hardware). * **SDK:** High-performance Python bridge for model handling. **Source & Proofs:** * **Main Repo:** [Sovereign Map FL](https://github.com/rwilliamspbg-ops/Sovereign_Map_Federated_Learning) * **Reference Agent:** [Sovereign-Mohawk-Proto](https://github.com/rwilliamspbg-ops/Sovereign-Mohawk-Proto) * **Formal Verification:** [The Six-Theorem Stack](https://rwilliamspbg-ops.github.io/Sovereign-Mohawk-Proto/) I’d love to hear your thoughts on using this for privacy-preserving local LLM fine-tuning or distributed inference verification. Cheers! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

KySiBongDem

If I am just a normal consumer who just wants to buy a cup of coffee, how do I “adopt” a crypto as a payment when people have been treating that crypto as an investment? Do I have to become a crypto investor also - so my pocket is also dancing: in the morning I can buy a cup of coffee but in the evening I can buy like 90% of a cup. I do not buy that crypto is not impacted by inflation: vendors can ask for 0.002 Bitcoin for 32GB of RAM instead of 0.001 Bitcoin. Cryptos are kind of dancing around inflation reports but they should not, shouldn’t they? Bitcoin transaction settlement is also costly/not free, maybe there are other cryptos cheaper.

prototype__

"640k of RAM ought to be enough for anyone" - Bill Gates

Accomplished-Web4073

In early 90's, "today's best" was a 486 with a few hundreds of mhz and a few megs of RAM. In the early 2000's it was maybe dual core 1.5ghz with a few gigabits of RAM. Not sure the analogy is fully valid, but technology progresses fast in a lot of various metrics.

Excellent-Piglet-655

You’re thinking like Bill Gates in the 80s “No one will ever need more than 640k of RAM” 😂😂😂 look how far AI has gone in 3 years. If you look at research on the topic, at the current advancement of quantum computing, bitcoin’s cryptography could be comprised by the 2030s also not sure where you’re getting “1.9 billion qubits” you need more around 2k-5k qubits to crack a standard Bitcoin key

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Post is by: AdventurousCost5127 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1rb4md6/why_your_exchange_glitched_during_the_feb_crash/ We’ve all seen the screen. Bitcoin sheds $5k in ten minutes, the Fear and Greed index hits a single digit, and you rush to your app to either de-risk or buy the dip. Then it happens: The 502 Gateway Error or the System Maintenance banner. It magically appears exactly when the market turns red and disappears once the volatility settles. Let’s stop calling these technical difficulties. In 2026, these are infrastructure failures, and in many cases, they are a choice. Most traders think exchanges go down because there are too many users. That’s rarely the whole truth. If Netflix can stream 4K video to millions simultaneously, a text-based trade order shouldn't break an exchange. The real issue is the Matching Engine the core software that pairs your Buy with someone else's Sell. Many legacy exchanges even the ones with billion-dollar stadium deals are still running on architecture that uses Database Locking. Imagine a post office where only one person can be served at a time at the counter. Even if there are 1,000 people waiting in line outside, the clerk only talks to one person, writes down their info, files it in a cabinet, and then calls the next person. In a crash, that line becomes miles long. The system doesn't just slow down it stops responding entirely to protect itself from crashing the whole server. Have you ever noticed your Sell button works, but only after the price dropped another 2%? During high volatility, many exchanges throttle retail API requests. They prioritize their own internal Liquidation Bots. They need to clear out underwater margin positions to protect the exchange's solvency before they let you, the retail trader, exit your position. If the platform’s throughput can't handle the heat, you are effectively locked out until the house is safe. I didn't join Bitunix because of a flashy commercial. I joined because I spent the February 2026 crash watching the order books of five different exchanges simultaneously. While the household names were pausing withdrawals for 20 minutes to catch their collective breath, Bitunix stayed... boring. And in trading, boring is a superpower. Here is the technical reason They don't wait for a slow physical database to write a line of code for every trade. Everything happens in the RAM. It’s the difference between writing a physical letter and sending an instant DM. Their API isn't a fixed pipe. When the traffic hits a specific threshold, the system automatically spawns new worker nodes. It doesn't ask for permission it expands horizontally to meet the demand. The Merkle Leaf Standard This is the most important part for 2026. If an exchange doesn't let you mathematically verify your funds on-chain, they shouldn't have your money. Bitunix allows you to check your individual Merkle Leaf against their total liabilities. You aren't just trusting a Proof of Reserves PDF; you are verifying the math yourself. Stop Picking Celebrities, Start Picking Infrastructure If your exchange lagged last week, they will lag next time, too. They haven't fixed the engine they’ve just put a new coat of paint on the UI. As a Bitunix user, my advice is simple: Check the uptime logs during the Feb crash, verify the reserves via the Merkle Tree, and don't get caught behind a Maintenance banner again. Trading is hard enough without the platform itself being your biggest adversary. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

FeelingVanilla2594

RAM season is where the party is at

ZombieDracula

So you downvote me and don't answer my question. Sounds like you don't have any sources for what you're saying and are full of shit.  Inflation slowing down doesn't mean it's not increasing still, just is at a rate less than before and that's overall. How much does RAM cost? How about a new hard drive? Eggs are still $7. Milk is still $4.50. Trump hasn't done one thing to change this. You can thank Jerome Powell for the inflation decrease in speed. 

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Post is by: Sassy_Allen and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: https://internetcomputertoday.substack.com/p/the-black-box-subnet-is-here-icp Proposal 140407 has passed, creating the first TEE-enabled subnet. Here is why "hardware-rooted trust" is the missing link for enterprise adoption. The News A massive fundamental upgrade just went live on the Internet Computer. Proposal 140407 has successfully executed, creating the network's first TEE-enabled subnet. Starting with a cluster of 7 nodes, this subnet represents a transition from "software-based security" to "hardware-rooted trust." For the first time, canisters (smart contracts) on this subnet can operate in a state of Full Confidentiality—keeping their internal data hidden not just from the public, but from the very nodes that run the code. What is a TEE (Trusted Execution Environment)? To understand why this matters, you have to understand the "Dirty Little Secret" of traditional cloud and blockchain computing. Normally, when a server processes your data, it has to decrypt it in the CPU's memory (RAM) to work on it. At that specific moment—while the data is "in use"—it is vulnerable. A malicious cloud admin or a compromised node provider could, theoretically, take a "snapshot" of the memory and see your passwords, private keys, or proprietary algorithms in plain text. A TEE changes the rules.Think of a TEE (specifically AMD SEV-SNP technology used here) as a cryptographic black box inside the CPU. * Encryption in Use: Data is decrypted only inside the processor die. * Isolation: Even the operating system and the person owning the hardware cannot peek inside. * Remote Attestation: The network can cryptographically verify that the code running inside is exactly what it claims to be, with no tampering. Why This Changes Everything for ICP The Internet Computer is already unique because it hosts the entire app on-chain. But until now, hosting highly sensitive data (like medical records, institutional trading strategies, or private user messaging) required you to trust the honesty of the decentralized node providers. With TEEs, that trust assumption is removed. You no longer need to trust the Node Provider; you only need to trust the Hardware. Massive Use Cases Unlocked: 1. True Private AI: You can run an AI model on-chain where the user's prompt and the model's weights remain invisible to the node operators. 2. Enterprise Compliance: Corporations that legally cannot put customer data on a public blockchain (due to GDPR or HIPAA) can now use TEE subnets to prove data privacy. What’s Next? Currently, this is a dedicated test environment. It is running with 7 nodes (fewer than the standard 13, because TEEs offer higher individual security) and is "authorized-only" to ensure stability before opening the floodgates. However, the roadmap is clear. As DFINITY developers gather operational experience, we can expect this to roll out as a standard option for developers. Soon, when you deploy a canister, you might simply check a box: "Do you want this to run on a public subnet or a confidential TEE subnet?" The "World Computer" just got its own private wing. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

AussieJeffProbst

Illegal price fixing is literally the opposite of capitalism. Also I think starting your own RAM manufacturing company is a bit out of reach for most people. But again you're kookoo for coco puffs crazy. Please seek help.

i_have_chosen_a_name

I am sure you know better then the person that designed Bitcoin but here is what the design says: >Once the latest transaction in a coin is buried under enough blocks, the spent transactions before it can be discarded to save disk space. To facilitate this without breaking the block's hash, transactions are hashed in a Merkle Tree [7][2][5], with only the root included in the block's hash. Old blocks can then be compacted by stubbing off branches of the tree. The interior hashes do not need to be stored. A block header with no transactions would be about 80 bytes. If we suppose blocks are generated every 10 minutes, 80 bytes * 6 * 24 * 365 = 4.2MB per year. With computer systems typically selling with 2GB of RAM as of 2008, and Moore's Law predicting current growth of 1.2GB per year, storage should not be a problem even if the block headers must be kept in memory. Read for yourself in point 7. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

jawni

It's sad that you think these are gotcha questions, when people settle for this kind of concern trolling, you know they're desperate. >1) What is the number of SOL validators including last 3year trend? ~800 is the current number, largest validator set than any other blockchain of the same age or younger. And even 800 is actually far more than is needed. 100-200 would actually be the sweet spot, assuming ideal geographic stake distribution. It is down from 2500. Why? [Because the delegation program that was started to bootstrap the network has winded down.](https://x.com/SolanaFndn/status/2018338765211926940) * Non-SFDP delegated stake grew ~230% * Foundation stake share fell from 44.4% to ~5.9% * Independent validators increased by 121% Solana has gotten substantially more decentralized over these 3 years, but people generally aren't very good at using any nuance so they typically just look at raw validator numbers, which give you maybe 10% of the data you need to make to have a comprehensive view on decentralization. Beyond that you need to look at client diversity, development diversity, geographic distribution of stake, hosting diversity, nakamoto coefficient and many other factors, including but not limited to the ones in the bullet points. >2) What is the HW spec. for SOL node as of now? * CPU: 12 cores / 24 threads or more, with a base clock speed of 2.8GHz or faster. Must support SHA extensions (AMD Gen 3 or newer, Intel Ice Lake or newer) and AVX2 instructions; AVX512f support is beneficial. * RAM: 256GB or more, with Error Correction Code (ECC) memory recommended. * Storage: PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe SSD or better.Accounts: 1TB or larger, high Total Bytes Written (TBW) endurance. Ledger: 1TB or larger, high TBW suggested. OS/Snapshots: 500GB or larger. >3) What is the size of SOL blockchain giventhough the vast amount of transactions incl. those non-client one? Validators have no need to store all of it but if they wanted to, it would be 100TB. >4) What is the consensus of SOL PoS - how fairly are block producers chosen giventhough early SOL coin distribution scheme (vesting schedule)? So you're kind of conflating two things here. There is block production and then there is the tokenomics and vesting. The vesting has been done for a while now, so block producers aren't really being chosen in 2026 due to tokens they received half a decade ago. You can watch them in real-time here: https://gui.firedancer.io/ It's pretty clear that many validators produce blocks for Solana and it has little to do with vesting schedules. Even if it did, that would necessarily mean that whichever group that was that invested over 5 years ago, has diamondhanded those coins through all unlocks, which I would think would be a good thing. On the consensus mechanism itself, it uses TowerBFT and Proof of History for now, but soon will deprecate that when Alpenglow is implemented and we'll have Votor and Rotor. Learn more here: https://www.helius.dev/blog/alpenglow

WickedDeity

It doesn't seem OK to me --> https://support.ledger.com/article/Ledger-Nano-S-Limitations It has RAM limitations and was officially retired in 2022 and doesn't get firmware updates anymore.

lenissius14

Most miners's GPUs are not related to the Infrastructure used on AI (still, RAM outage could be a slightly valid concern) I would say that mining being super inaccessible after many halving cycles, could be a more valid concern that could stop mining for everyone but less than 1% of the total number of miners before 2140

SirArthurPT

RAM, chips, massive warehouses, nuclear power plants and so on aren't "handshake agreements".

NeoN0mad

La meilleure méthode pour miner chez soi, c'est d'utiliser des GPU (des cartes graphiques). D'ailleurs la plupart des logiciels ASIC te demandent où sont tes GPU au moment de l'installation. Donc il te faut justement un ASIC qui coute environ 2000€ au minimum (je crois). En gros, c'est une carte mère minimale avec un bon processeur, de la RAM et plusieurs emplacements pour des cartes graphiques. Si tu veux faire ça sur ton PC maison, tu gagneras rien ou presque. Je pense même qu'avec ton pc allumé h24 7jours sur 7 tu perdras de l'argent. Je penses que le plus rentable est de louer des serveurs ASIC en mode cloud mining.

Deslock77

I am very pessimistic because i wanted to change my computer but because of the RAM scarcity prices of RAM and GPUs are now really expensive and with no end in sight...OHHHHHH you were speaking about Bitcoin, sorry let me check. No still have the same satoshi amount and block 935049 was mined 1 minute and 54 seconds ago[](https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/935049)

ayakaza

Can't go back, i wish i invested in Sandisk when the price of RAM went up.

ta_pi

How much RAM do you have? I suspect it's thrashing because of lack of memory and so the bottleneck isn't network bandwidth.

TripTryad

I know that no one here wants to hear this, but its perfectly healthy and fine to ride the crypto bull seasons while pivoting to equities in the off seasons. Up over 200% in MU over the past 6 months and up over 400% in SNDK in the last 6 months as well It's just investing in RAM/Memory with it being gobbled up because of all of the AI craze (that will inevitably die down at some point) By the end of this year (if previous cycles hold true, it'll be time to pivot back and get exposure to BTC again for 2027 and keep an eye out to see if we get another alt season in 2028 (Maybe it happens, maybe it doesnt). Just felt like mentioning it. If you arent averse to stocks, then go get your returns there by investing in something you understand. (Don't invest in RAM if you don't understand what's going on) You can always return to crypto later. I'm on my last cycle and I should be retiring if this goes the normal return in the next BTC bull market. 👍🏾

dirufa

Increase cache size according to the RAM available, should reduce disk writes

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Post is by: Ultrayano and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1qpdcmh/serious_ethereum_vs_solana_in_2026_technical_and/ Hello r/CryptoCurrency I would like to ask and start a discussion in terms of **Ethereum** and **Solana** and how they fare against each other. Growth is still a factor here, but exposure is much more important to me right now, which directly translates into growth long-term. # Context I feel like right now we are in a phase of a heavy transition into a future, like we only had it during the **".com Bubble"**. The transition includes major technologies like **AI** but also **Blockchains** and thus Cryptocurrencies as a whole. The reason that this feeling is stronger than before, is that banks and financial institutions started to see Cryptocurrencies as a liability to their business model, since **yields** are much higher, when invested into a **stablecoin**, compared to a **bank**. With the political and economical landscape right now being really rocky, we might experience one of the biggest wealth transfer in a long while in the coming 5 years. As a investor myself and also a technical guy, I want to have enough exposure into the right things, rather than gamble my life away. I don't believe to be one of the people that are the next "Warren Buffett", but my life-goal is to reach FIRE as young as possible, to life a self-fulfilling life. I don't really care about expensive materialistic stuff, but about the autonomy that wealth can buy, so supercars or even Yachts are entirely uninteresting for me. The goal is to reach FIRE with a yearly return enough to give a family of 4 a comfortable life. # Discussion points In the current landscape there are mainly three major players that are talked about a lot in this space. The first one being * Bitcoin - for obvious reasons and being the grandfather of cryptocurrencies * Ethereum - as a major player and currently the main candidate to be the future world computer * Solana - the younger competitor of Ethereum with a theoretical throughput of about 10x that of Ethereum Ethereum is often cited as the battle-tasted stable system in the space, while trying to fulfill a solution to the Blockchain trilemma, namely "**Decentralization**", "**Scalability**" and "**Security**". Vitalik Buterin very recently said, that they finally solved the trilemma and rolling out a solution mid-year in the "**Glamsterdam**" upgrade, which nudges Ethereum closer to the final solution. Ethereum heavily relies on L2 solutions compared to having everything on the main chain. The mainchain is said to reach 10k TPS after the upgrade with L2s reaching 100k+ TPS, which is already well above today's levels with for example Visa. Solana on the other hand is frequently cited as the high-throughput powerhouse of the ecosystem, engineered specifically as a "monolithic" architecture that prioritizes speed and low costs. It compromises on security and thus doesn't need many nodes to be down, for the Blockchain to be entirely down, but all of it is on the main chain. Solana wants to solve their reliability issues with the upgrade "**Firedancer**" which is also said to lift the throughput to a staggering 1M+ TPS in lab tests. From a security perspective, Ethereum is the clear winner for high value transactions since it's stability and security are second to none compared to Solana, while Solana is the clear winner for fast and low value retail transactions like monthly payments for example. From a technical and Blockchain purist view, Solana does seem like a "fancier server" with high risk of wealth being locked away forever. While Ethereum is not perfect in this regard, it adheres more to the purist philosophy of blockchain. Solana also does need insanely higher specs (\~6+ cores, 256GB+ RAM, 10Gbps symmetric internet) compared to Ethereum (technically runs on a Raspberry Pi) to have a node, while 32 Ethereum isn't that low anymore too. # Verdict From the perspective of maturity and stability Ethereum does clearly win the race of being the global backbone of the futures financial system, especially with Blackrocks BUIDL PoC among other projects. Investors start to treat it more like a "**blue chip investment**" nowadays tho, since while L2 solutions are one of the biggest strengths of Ethereum, it's also on of the biggest hampers to growth and is is seen as reliable and stable "slow investment". L2 solutions don't really need Ethereum as fuel, which is why a lot of things can be done extremely cheap or in a way that bypasses Ethereum as cryptocurrency entirely, while still relying on the backbone itself. Solana however, even with less stability is said to be poised for the mass. Since everything is running on the mainchain and uses Solana as the de-facto fuel, it is said to be a riskier bet, but with the potential of explosive growth. It's not made to be a stable asset (yet) tho. Ethereum is often compared to IBM (boring but stable) while Solana sits in-between being the next Sun Microsystems (huge for the time, but failed) or the next Google in the ecosystem. To reach FIRE fast, one could argue to put everything into Solana for growth in the next years. But the healthy path would make a 80/20 or 70/30 split the most efficient and safe for high growth. I've known Bitcoin since 2012, but was still a kid back then, while I also knew about Ethereum starting in 2017 and am well aware of the whole DAO debacle that happened. 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Proper_Historian801

I mean It's more to do with RAM manufacturers way overcorrecting to an earlier demand bumb and creating a huge glut, then cutting their production at probably the worst possible time. But yeah AI demand is part of it.

SwedishHero82

I remember when 0.5 megabyte of RAM cost $300 USD. 

riscten

Not only charts, but AI-generated slop charts. This garbage is why there's a GPU and RAM shortage. Fuck you OP (or more likely whoever runs the account)

owa00

$265 million might get him 64GB of RAM for his AI startup!

DoritoZNJ

I'm selling my BTC for RAM sticks then

instilledbee

Enough for one DDR5 RAM kit

0x456

Wen RAM, GPU, CPU RWAs.....?

comradebille

Micron is a pure RAM play and is up 275% on the year, but it's overvalued by most models. this ram shortage was predicted and priced in earlier in the year

Donut_LordO

RAM is in extreme demand and zero supply. GPU ‘s used to also be this way back in 2020 and now they are about to be again. So Micron and Nvidia and other AI partners will be even more crazy in the next 10 years

MonsieurGump

There’s a massive global shortage of RAM in the pipeline. There are only 3 major players in the RAM making business. They’ll have to ramp up production or other companies will have to join the game. Either way somebody is gonna need some machines to make some chips. There’s only one company I know that makes those machines. In a gold rush, sell shovels.

Cptn_BenjaminWillard

I found a 4GB stick of DDR4 ram on a shelf in my workshop. Greatest gift of all ... to myself. Nobody can afford RAM these days.

Kakkarot1707

You don’t know what RAM is but you have THIS much bitcoin?? …..mmmmmmk

fivemil420

pffft just download as much RAM as you need for free duh

stellarfirefly

I've performed two full syncs recently on different nodes, and they both required just over 24 hours. It really depends mostly upon your internet bandwidth and your hard drive's throughput (don't use FAT32 if possible). Your CPU and RAM are factors only if you are running close to the limits of your node software.

Odd_Bar9513

What’s RAM tho?

i_have_chosen_a_name

Millions of transactions will never work because if you read the Bitcoin whitepaper it clearly says that transactions need to be stored forever. Here it is in point 7. >Once the latest transaction in a coin is buried under enough blocks, the spent transactions before it can be discarded to save disk space. To facilitate this without breaking the block's hash, transactions are hashed in a Merkle Tree [7][2][5], with only the root included in the block's hash. Old blocks can then be compacted by stubbing off branches of the tree. The interior hashes do not need to be stored. A block header with no transactions would be about 80 bytes. If we suppose blocks are generated every 10 minutes, 80 bytes * 6 * 24 * 365 = 4.2MB per year. With computer systems typically selling with 2GB of RAM as of 2008, and Moore's Law predicting current growth of 1.2GB per year, storage should not be a problem even if the block headers must be kept in memory

donnyjonny85

Or RAM. 💀

Va3V1ctis

Buying RAM :)))

JuxtaposeLife

In terms of prssing I'd say no. I put in a Ryzen 7700 (which was about $300ish when I bought it), on a reatively cheap motherboardd, but saying that's not powerful is relative to what you're comparing it to. My server is basically a mid to lightweight gaming build. But it doesn't have a monitor of peripherals. I SSH into it over my home wifi, hence the 'headless' label. For context, it cost me about $1500 to build the server from parts. I do have 10TB of on board SSD (which is about half the cost), which is a bit overkill but allows me to index for faster querying. The entire blockchain on a node is compressed, but is still approaching 900GB. Unpacked and indexed, I'm looking at about 3.4TB of space needed just for the database. I have a script running live processing on every block as it arrives, so I'm always within a minute of true live data. I'm looking at upgrading my RAM this month from 32GB to 64GB and I'll be adding a GPU at some point for some more advanced stuff... I just stood up a web server ($5 a month and $10 for the domain), and I'm currently writing some cron jobs to push data up to the web automatically for those who like analytics. Hoping to build a community, eventually... like glassnode, but without a paywall. One can dream... I don't care to create a company... but just spread Bitcoin cheer and awareness. If you're asking about power because of mining (which is a common misconception) which does require a lot of power, I felt it important to highlight that running a node from a power perspective is really light. It might cost me between $10-20 annually to run my node and analytics from an electricty point of view.

Short-Ideas010

Does that mean we expect a big crash due to global events like RAM shortage?

noviwu97

Tech never matter, not only in crypto, but in every aspect of this world. I bet you never used Windows Phone or Blackberry 10. Those two has faaarrr superior tech than iOS and Android. Much faster, smoother, RAM efficient, and easy to develop. Why do they fail? Apps ecosystem.

lordchickenburger

I wish people bought bitcoin instead of RAM. Someone please scam ram altman to buy bitcoin

4Jay_K

Could make some nice profit out of RAM these days.

Inevitable-Net-191

It would be the same even if u paid for the RAM in bitcoin

Puzzleheaded_Pop2019

You are 100% right to call that out. Using the word 'Keys' in a Bitcoin sub was a massive unforced error on my part. To be crystal clear: I meant Infrastructure Credentials (API Keys, SSH Configs, Passwords), NOT Seed Phrases. NEVER paste a Seed Phrase or Private Key into a browser. I would report that post too. Regarding the 'IRC/Pastebin' comparison—you aren't wrong about the utility, but the Architecture is different. Pastebin/IRC: Writes data to a database on a hard drive. If the server is seized, the history exists. This Tool: Runs in volatile RAM. Logs are piped to /dev/null at the OS level. If the power is cut, the data doesn't just delete; it ceases to have ever existed. It’s a tool for metadata minimization, not wallet management. Thanks for keeping the standard high, seriously.

StoneWall_MWO

My friends were shocked over the price of RAM now. I explained well currencies around the world are fucked. Add that to the demand on RAM and you should be paying 4x + what NewEgg/Amazon/whoever used to sell it at 5 years ago.

FuklzTheDrnkClwn

Yea but the actual action of trading the gold for goods and services only uses energy with your arm muscles. Crypto currency is sucking up energy via mining AND transactions. It’s also causing GPU and RAM prices to skyrocket. Look at RAM currently… that has to be factored in as well.

Paebin

Nice move. Buy second-hand RAM, sell it as new, and use the profit to buy more BTC at low price. You’re the GOAT!

FruitBeef

The fact that someone used AI to make this... bro. I just want to buy RAM

riscten

Depends when. Late 80s? Plenty of PCs didn't even have 1MB of RAM. But even later, just *loading* a large executable from a floppy to RAM was slow and loud.

MaximumStudent1839

> 10,000 TPS via Parallel Execution: Monad is the first EVM-compatible chain to implement optimistic parallel execution.  You are missing the REAL BIG PICTURE. That is not the story. Any chain can crank up massive TPS if they crank up the hardware requirement up the wazoo. According to [https://docs.monad.xyz/node-ops/hardware-requirements](https://docs.monad.xyz/node-ops/hardware-requirements), their node only needs 32GB+ of RAM + 300 Mbps bandwidth. It is a very low requirement compared to many "fast" EVM chain. Take the two Cosmos shitcoin EVM chains, Sei and Injective, for example. Both want validators to run1 Gbps+ bandwidth and 128 GB RAM. And Monad claims to be faster than both. If the claims are valid, Monad is really ***crazily optimized*** compared to the shit EVMs we have on today's market. Only Ethereum's ZkEVM roadmap aims for a lower hardware footprint to scale. But even then, only the verifiers run low-end hardware while their proof builders run more demanding hardware, e.g., ZkSync says builders need 2 5090 GPUs. This Monad shit is probably the most optimized EVM for the next year or two, until ETH carries out its full ZkEVM plan. MegaETH doesn't count because it uses more demanding hardware. > This is a very low percentage, leading to concerns about centralization and a market heavily reliant on a small circulating supply. Unfortunately, this is what happens with newer chains. I haven't seen anyone with a better idea for solving it. If you give more supply to airdrop, the airdrop jeets will rekt your chart and paint a Mount Everest. If you give more supply for sale, then the crowd would scream "ExTrAcToR! WhY dO yOu NeEd tO RaIsE So MuCh MoNeY!" >  Fully Diluted Valuation (FDV) suggests that all future success is already priced in. Crypto valuations for L1s are hard to make sense of most of the time, especially for new L1s with no history of social Lindyness. It is mainly relative hopium to existing valuations. It is monolithic in design. Instinctively, you want to rank its FDV against Sui in the short term and Solana in the long term.

Over_Ad_4907

I use MX Linux live distro to do offline signing. The live distro doesnt have any persistence and I run it completely on RAM so it doesnt leave any trace on my computer.

brtastic

It will take some time, but 0.08 percent per hour is very slow. You should identify what is the bottleneck. Is it the slow connection / not sufficient number of peers who send you data? Have you configured it to run on multiple threads and make use of the RAM you have? Is the chainstate stored on a SSD or on a HDD? Especially the connection and the chainstate location are important for catching up.

Severe-Masterpiece61

You can speed it up quite a bit by increasing the size of the cache to slightly less than your RAM size. It's an option in the settings.

Eagle6942

In your bitcoin.conf file, adjust dbcache=8000 If you have 8 gigs of spare RAM. That will speed it up significantly.

turnedtable_

Linux pc, pretty good internet / RAM and SSD

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devCheckingIn

Yeah they can't make enough of it for the AI build-out. If I didn't have money tied up in worthless crypto I would be investing in RAM manufacturers.

thenamelessone7

Also, RAM does something actually useful 😂

thenamelessone7

If only alt prices went up half as much as RAM prices increased in the last 3 months

skkane1

Alright, time to close this shit ass chrome browser with reddit, charts and all the bullshit. Not only eating 5gb of my RAM but plenty of GBs of my sanity as well.

Charming-Designer944

A node costs mainly in storage if you want to run a full node. A pruned relay node can get away with very modest requirements. But also have limited use as it is not keeping the history and you cannot use it to look up past transactions. A minimum specification for a full node is Some CPU. 16GB RAM 1 TB of storage Minimum recommended configuration Dual core CPU 32GB RAM 2 TB of storage A pruned node can get away with maybe 25 GB storage You really want at least 32GB RAM, at least during the initial download of the Blockchain or if you need to reindex the Blockchain.

Aussiehash

You want 8GB or RAM and at least 1.5TB SSD storage. You can do this on a Raspberry Pi4B or Pi5, so CPU is not a huge issue

eurocohete

That sounds very familiar — I had the same issues when I tried to run a node on a Raspberry Pi. The hardware just couldn’t keep up during the initial sync, and it would crash or get stuck around the same years you mentioned. In my case, moving to a stronger machine with more RAM and a faster SSD fixed everything. Once the node finished syncing, it’s been rock-solid ever since. Sometimes it’s not the software — it’s just that the hardware needs a bit more power to handle the full chain.

eurocohete

The node itself uses very little power — just a modest old desktop motherboard with 16 GB RAM and a 2 TB NVMe SSD running 24/7. It’s roughly 10–15 W, so basically the same as a small light bulb. The Bitaxe units are super efficient too — each one draws about 15–20 W. Even running two of them 24/7 barely makes a dent in my electricity bill. I haven’t found a block yet, so no sats mined so far — but that’s not the goal. I’m doing it to support decentralization and learn how the system really works from the ground up.

eurocohete

Yes, I’m running it on a dedicated old desktop motherboard — nothing fancy, just solid hardware I repurposed for the node. It has 16 GB of RAM and a 2 TB NVMe SSD, so it keeps the entire blockchain locally and runs smoothly 24/7. I like having it isolated from my main PC. I’m using Bitcoin Core v28.1, not Knots or v30. It’s stable and works perfectly for my setup with two Bitaxe Gamma 601 units mining directly against my node. Once v30 matures a bit more, I’ll probably test it in parallel — but for now, 28.1 has been rock-solid.

Narrow-Funny-842

I can't remember off the top of my head but if I remember correctly, the chipset in the Safe 5 is ironically a bit slower than the Safe 3 but has more RAM. If you ever plan on moving to a multisig at some point, you become RAM constrained when making larger transactions with numerous UTXOs. Lopp has done testing on the older ones if you want to look it up but you can see some HWWs taking a few seconds vs others that take 45 minutes or completely crash and can't process larger multisig transactions. You might want to spend more to future proof yourself. It's also nice having a full screen vs a few buttons to click on.

Key-Boat-7519

Cloud providers don’t nuke nodes because random bytes land in RAM; they act on abuse (malware distribution, open hosting of illicit data, or DDoS traffic) or legal orders. They don’t inspect tenant memory, and a Bitcoin node parsing arbitrary data isn’t executing it. Practical mitigations: keep your node P2P-only (no public block file hosting), enable disk encryption, cap egress with maxuploadtarget, consider -blocksonly or a pruned node, rate-limit 8333 and rotate peers/Tor if targeted. We use Cloudflare Magic Transit for DDoS and AWS GuardDuty for abuse signaling; DreamFactory helps gate internal APIs for node metrics and ops dashboards with RBAC. On “tinted chain” risk, institutions mostly hold via custodians/ETFs; a worst case is creation/redemption pauses, not instant mass dumping. Real telltales would be ETF AP statements, widening futures basis, and borrow spikes before a cascade. In short, focus on network hygiene and traffic controls; the legal risk is about serving or transmitting bad content, not passively storing or relaying the chain.

levintofu_WTF

This is a bit misleading. It’s not just about SPAM. It’s also about bloat and malisons data. What happens when there is unencrypted malware code in RAM? Will AWS, Azure et. at. shut your nodes down? Lock your account? There is a DDOS component that we just don’t know how the network will react since impossible to test. There are compliance issues: What happens to price action if large institutional players have to exit if Bitcoin is labeled a “tinted chain”? We already seen a 50% retracement when fork of Bitcoin implanted this same code. What sort of liquidation cascade would this cause? The strange part is that no one is even asking for this.

zozland

One key point that often gets overlooked is validator accessibility. Solana has much higher hardware requirements, which limits who can realistically participate. To run a Solana validator, you need extremely high bandwidth (close to 1 GB/sec sustained), fast storage, and up to 128 GB of RAM. These costs create a higher barrier to entry and concentrate validator power in the hands of large, well-funded players. Ethereum, by contrast, has intentionally kept validation more accessible. With Ethereum’s Proof of Stake, all you need is 32 ETH, a reliable (but not extreme) internet connection, and modest hardware specs. You don’t need enterprise-grade RAM or bandwidth. This lowers the cost of entry and allows a much wider pool of participants to run validators, making Ethereum’s Layer 1 more decentralized in practice. It’s true that Solana achieves higher throughput with its Proof of History mechanism, which requires validators to maintain a constant internal clock to timestamp transactions. This design is what enables Solana’s speed, but it also drives its steep hardware requirements. Ethereum solves scaling differently—rather than pushing all throughput onto Layer 1, it embraces Layer 2 rollups. This lets Ethereum keep its base layer highly decentralized and secure, while Layer 2s handle the bulk of transaction volume at scale.

stellarfirefly

I use an old laptop that I have no other use for. It's like circa 2014, but it's more than enough for a node with 16GB RAM and a 1TB SSD. (Might need to upgrade that SSD soonish, though.)

Initial-Cucumber-744

I have built my own Bitcoin node using an old Dell OptiPlex SFF, installed a 1TB (should’ve 2TB) SSD, added RAM, installed Ubuntu Server and installed all necessary software to run a node. It is like my own home lab. Pi-hole and Homebridge are all running there, too!

Live-Tap2576

We will see! I am pushing the RAM hard already 3.5ishGB usage. I shouldn’t of cheaped out lol ah well

Mission-Shoulder6279

Security Guardrails for UIGent Data isolation: Each service runs in isolated Docker containers with dedicated Redis databases (0/1) and PostgreSQL schemas, preventing cross-contamination between users' data flows. Credential management: API keys and tokens are never stored in generated code - they're injected at runtime through environment variables managed by the orchestrator service, with MinIO providing encrypted artifact storage. Read-only normalization: Forge only generates read-safe SDK wrappers and tool catalogs - it never directly executes against user APIs, that's handled by the sandboxed Atlas workers with resource limits (3GB RAM, timeout controls). Deterministic outputs: Content-addressable spec IDs ensure reproducible, auditable transformations - users can verify exactly what code was generated from their API docs. Zero-persistence execution: Atlas workers execute in ephemeral environments with ARQ job TTLs, ensuring sensitive data isn't retained beyond the immediate workflow execution.

CaptainSugarWeasel

No video sorry, but cold storage means "offline". No need for a hardware wallet to achieve cold storage. If you write down your seed phrase and then delete your wallet, you now have your btc in cold storage (your private keys hopefully no longer exist on an internet-connected machine). Your wallet was online at some point so there is still a risk, and the data could be recoverable from your hard drive unless you use software to wipe the free space. A step better is using a dedicated device (like an old laptop) with a fresh install of the operating system and disabled from being able to connect to the internet. My preferred method for long term cold storage would be to install Tails OS on a USB (Tails comes with Electrum pre-installed, it's a Linux system that boots from USB and runs only in RAM). Create your wallet, make your seed backups, export a public master key, shut down. Boot up Tails again to check that you can successfully restore your wallet from your seed. You can use the public master key to receive btc to your wallet and keep track of your balances (watch-only wallet safe to keep on your normal PC).

Strict-Employment664

It’s good to understand the history of why Bitcoin was even created. That helps frame everything else. The way I think about bitcoin is that society needs money in order to allow trade to flourish (because barter is insanely cumbersome and obviously doesn’t work at scale). The more we can trade, the more we can specialize, the more we can produce for less time, energy, and materials. The more that happens the wealthier we can all become. Money is simply the asset in an economy that is the most desirable for its specific characteristics that are uniquely valuable when it comes to money. Any asset is valued relative to how well it can accomplish a set of needs (hard drive space and RAM for a computer, nutrition and flavor for a meal, speed and comfort for a car, and so on). Money is valued based on how well it accomplishes a totally separate set of needs that relates to allowing trade to flourish. The most effective money in a society is divisible, verifiable, portable, durable, scalable, fungible, and most importantly, scarce (which is the difficulty of bringing in new supply relative to the existing stock). A lot of things have been money in different societies, and the need for scarcity meant that you’d want a money that society lacked the capability of making more of cheaply (otherwise everyone would spend their time making more money/monetary assets rather than making more goods and services to consume). The problem was that different societies had different technical capability and one society could cheaply create more monetary media of another society and then wreck their economy by flooding their market with more monetary media rather than goods and services. Gold historically was the apex monetary asset because NOBODY could make more or mine more very easily. However, gold wasn’t portable or divisible enough, and fiat paper made up for this shortfall, then eventually you have centrally controlled gold, money, central banks, and all of the trusted third party moral hazards that have led to decades of inflation. Bitcoin solves for many of these problems that gold had, that paper money attempted to solve, but had too large of an incentive to cheaply make more monetary media that governments couldn’t resist. Bitcoin is essentially a verifiable, perfectly scarce, divisible, portable at the speed of light, fungible, monetary assets that beats gold in every way except that it is still relatively new and doesn’t have the long term track record that gold has. That last part just takes time. If you have time, use that to your advantage and get in at the ground floor of the digitization of monetary assets, in the one asset that most perfectly meets these monetary properties.

Realistic_Fee_00001

Kicking the can down is what every business does. It is especially useful, since CPUs, RAM and network speed does exactly the same. Youtube servs petabytes every day and all by kicking down the can since 2006.

Majestic-Relation489

It IS LITERALLY CRYPTO. hell you think sha256 is lol. Don't come to a party to talk about RAM or memory.... (IT Crowd)

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; The Solana Seeker phone, preordered 18 months ago for $450, has arrived. The total cost, including import taxes and accessories, was $570. The phone features a MediaTek Dimensity 7300 processor, 8GB RAM, 128GB storage, and a 108MP main camera. It integrates a secure crypto wallet and a dApp store for Solana-based apps. The setup included creating a SOL wallet and claiming a Seeker Genesis Token. The phone feels well-built, though the side thumb scanner feels outdated. Future updates on potential airdrops will be shared. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

rldr

Jerky made using meat from a RAM

Aussiehash

You don't need to be very technical to build your own Raspberry Pi Node, there are plenty of instructions, for example https://docs.raspiblitz.org/docs/setup/get-hardware You need an official Pi USB-C power supply, a Pi 4B (8GB RAM) or Pi 5 (8GB RAM), a Pi 5/5 case, and a 2TB SSD (you can use an AliExpress USB3.1 NVME external enclosure) and a 32-64GB MicroSD. That's about it, you can use a smaller MicroSD, you can use a smaller SSD/NVME but I would say it must be over 1TB size. You then flash a user friendly Pi Node like Umbrel (free, easy web user interface, but they might have pivoted to a more expensive x86 / Intel platform now), myNodeBTC (well maintained, lots of features, but their premium version costs USD$50 and is required if you want the features of Tor and easy on click software updates) and Raspiblitz. Raspiblitz is less user friendly, most technical, but the most features under the hood, it is the only one that supports Fulcrum as an alternative to ElectRS (this is the backend you connect your SparrowWallet to) but you need to manually edit the install script, and log in to your Pi node over SSH to run the bash script. You really don't need to buy a pre-made node, you can go to Jaycar for the Pi, or buy it online from an Aussie electronic store like coreelectronics.com.au or overseas store like Adafruit, or Arrow, or AliExpress. The SSD/NVME you can buy from any computer store

Hitchie_Rawtin

Yep. Oisy.com for an on-chain wallet, something like oc.app or dmail.ai or officex.app for on-chain sites, there are tons more, some dapps choose a hybrid approach to counter any shortfalls the IC currently has (database latency in the case of Odin.fun) - ingress is high compared to AWS ($5/GB/yr Vs AWS being free to upload) but egress is substantially lower than AWS so it suits relatively static sites where massive amounts of user-generated data aren't being uploaded for now, at least until nodes get upgraded with blob storage (currently storage is in RAM) which would reduce storage costs by ~99%

Corporate-Shill406

Don't blame Windows 95, blame the lack of RAM lol

YappingOldMan

Ok, ended up checking and seems on average it has been using about 73 Mb’s of RAM and very little CPU power.

YappingOldMan

Oh interesting I had no idea, I set it up maybe a month ago in a LXC. From what I remember it used very little. I can check it out once Im back home and tell you the average. When I ran Bitcoin Knots through umbrel it did use more RAM but that was the same with the Bitcoin Core.

VisualPage782

I tried running Bitcoin Knots a couple of months ago. It had memory leaks and was using about twice as much RAM as Core. I ended up switching back to Core because of that issue. Any idea if the memory leak was fixed in Knots?

RefrigeratorLow1259

Doesn't take much power as it is centralised! Only has 23 nodes all run by big corporations - The hardware requirements are massive! The hardware requirements for Hedera nodes are quite specific and depend on whether you are running a consensus node or a mirror node. It's important to note that you can't just run a consensus node; they are currently permissioned and operated by the Hedera Governing Council members. However, anyone can run a mirror node. Consensus Node Requirements The requirements for a consensus node are very high-end and are designed for enterprise-grade performance and security. These are not for a typical home setup. * CPU: A high-performance, multi-core processor (e.g., Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC) with a minimum of 24 cores/48 threads is required. There are also specific performance benchmarks (Geekbench, Passmark) that must be met. * Memory (RAM): A large amount of ECC Registered DDR4 RAM is needed, with a minimum of 256GB and a recommendation of 320GB or more. * Storage: A substantial and very fast storage solution is essential. The requirements include at least 5TB of usable NVMe SSD storage with high sequential and random read/write speeds (e.g., 2,000-6,200 MB/s sequential read). The use of RAID arrays (e.g., RAID 1 for the OS, RAID 0 or 10 for data) is recommended for redundancy and performance. * Network: A sustained, unmetered 1 Gbps internet connection is required to handle the high volume of traffic. The node must also be deployed in an isolated DMZ network with specific ports open.