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Quote from: tiffy on June 11, 2023, 08:13:19 PM

In fact, I don't know exactly what a full node is.

A full node starts by downloading ~500 GB. After that, it's ~2 GB per week.

And in case OP wants to use 'txindex' (I assume he would prefer to have it, as he plans "to query the balance of a specific address"*), then there are extra 50G.

* - it will be much easier installing additional software for that, like https://github.com/janoside/btc-rpc-explorer

As described by it's name, txindex only index transaction and cannot be used to query balance of specific address. While additional software such as btc-rpc-explorer let you query balance of specific address, take note it require Electrum server which perform address indexing.