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Re: How much traffic does bitcoin-node generate monthly?
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LoyceV
on 09/04/2018, 13:39:11 UTC
I.e. one full bitcoin-node on a high bundwidth server generate less than 1 TB  traffic in any way, right?
Never say never Wink
1 TB really isn't that much when it comes to Bitcoin's blockchain, it's barely enough to sync 6 new clients. Those clients by default will of course also use other nodes, so in reality many different clients will each download a part of their blocks from your node.

Is it possible to somehow limit the speed of the node on Ubuntu-server?
Just Google "ubuntu limit network speed" and it gives you options like Wondershaper or Trickle (I haven't used any of them). Or, what I would do: manually monitor it for a while, it may not even be needed.