BLURT can run on much a less, in fact a Raspberry PI! A lot cheaper, and a lot smaller footprint!
With thousands of Raspberry Pi node users around the world, that would be a better idea for a more decentralized social platform. Can Hive upgrade to do this too I wonder?
No it can't. Not since it was spammed and is now over that threshold.
(There is a post about this by the Blurt dev, they are building a new chain now)
They also started the chain from scratch, if Hive didn't bring over state, it would be able to as well.
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Raspberry Pi's IO poor, especially to SD card.
Did Blurt ditch the Steem blockchain history?
The Hive blockchain is 330Gb - not something that a rPI can handle.
If Blurt is successful it will end up with a very large chain too.
What code changes did Blurt make to be able to run a node on an rPI?
Raspberry Pi's are atrocious at SD IO, the Pi 4 made a big improvement, but it is still bad, especially if you don't use a Samsung EVO+ (the best performing SD card by a long shot on a Raspberry Pi).
But anything serious I'd highly recommend just using an SSD drive, you can get one for about $30 and be 100x faster.
Some tests I did. Using something other than a Samsung EVO+ would have been much worse.
Maximum performance out of the Raspberry Pi 4 with an SSD drive
I'm planning to run the jussi for my API node on a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4Gb RAM and SD card.
Is this sufficient in your view or should I add a SSD on USB?
I have both the cable and SSD drive but understood jussi just used RAM for cache and didn't really do IO.
It will mostly be cpu/ram so I don't see a huge difference /w SD vs SSD outside of management time (and reliability on power outages as SD corrupt easier).
You can get a 250G SSD and cable for around $40.