Our new multi-user Bitcoind node

In Costing, Node management by bretton / 2021-05-17 / 0 comments

Follow-up Blog Post This post is a follow-up to our earlier blog post regarding costing and bandwidth usage for a small device with Bitcoind and LND. One of the problems some members have with their LND nodes is the cost of hard drive space at cloud providers. It doesn’t make sense to spend R2500pm on […]

What is required to co-locate your own Bitcoin & Lightning Network node in a data centre?

In Costing, Node management by bretton / 2021-02-20 / 0 comments

Hardware We make use of a small bookshelf pc with 4GB RAM and 1TB SSD. You can pick one up for around R7000 at 2021 prices. It’s faster than a Raspberry Pi, comes in a metal case and has two ethernet ports. The drive space is only half full in February 2021. Hosting We host […]