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 Before you begin…

The following example presumes you have the following ready:

  • root access to a server running any current Ubuntu LTS (20.04 in this example),350 GB

  • sufficient free disk space (plus 20 GB more every month)space on your storage/hard drive for the full Bitcoin blockchain,

    • the blockchain increases in size by approximately 20GB per month,

  • 4+ GB of memory (RAM).

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 195 gigabytes the first time you start your node.

- https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#minimum-requirements

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