<p>You sure can. The trickiest part is the initial download of the full blockchain. It will take about ~4 days. It might be 52Gb but doing a Get Info will show 64Gb. You've got heaps of space though.</p>

<p>Hopefully you've seen: <a href="https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#mac-os-x-yosemite-1010x" rel="nofollow">https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#mac-os-x-yosemite-1010x</a> and you'll want to enable incoming connections: <a href="https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#enabling-connections" rel="nofollow">https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#enabling-connections</a></p>

<p>Then you should see yourself on this map here: <a href="https://bitnodes.21.co/#join-the-network" rel="nofollow">https://bitnodes.21.co/#join-the-network</a> once you're up and running.</p>

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<p>It's certainly possible. I used to run a full bitcoind node on a 5 year old MacBook Air. I stopped (and moved it to a larger machine) because the size of the blockchain database was becoming annoying - it's <a href="https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size" rel="nofollow">currently 52 GB</a> and always gets bigger. If you can spare the space, there's no problem with actually doing it.</p>

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thanks! 52GB is a little big for my hard drive! maybe I'll try on another device though.
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Note that there's a pruning option that would limit your hard disk space usage to whatever you configure. Current pruning is a bit crude (and disables wallet functionatlity!), in the next versions it will be much better.
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<p>I'm thinking about running a bitcoind full node to help out the bitcoin network.</p>

<p>Would it be feasible to run a full node through one of the new macbooks?</p>

<p>(12", 250GB HD, 8GB RAM, 1.1 GHz Intel Core M processor)</p>

<p>thanks!</p>

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Running a full node on a macbook?
Tim Gregg
# Running a full node on a macbook?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-01-12)

I'm thinking about running a bitcoind full node to help out the bitcoin network.

Would it be feasible to run a full node through one of the new macbooks?

(12", 250GB HD, 8GB RAM, 1.1 GHz Intel Core M processor)

thanks!

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2016-01-13. Score: 1

You sure can. The trickiest part is the initial download of the full blockchain. It will take about ~4 days. It might be 52Gb but doing a Get Info will show 64Gb. You've got heaps of space though.

Hopefully you've seen: <https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#mac-os-x-yosemite-1010x> and you'll want to enable incoming connections: <https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#enabling-connections>

Then you should see yourself on this map here: <https://bitnodes.21.co/#join-the-network> once you're up and running.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2016-01-12. Score: 1

It's certainly possible. I used to run a full bitcoind node on a 5 year old MacBook Air. I stopped (and moved it to a larger machine) because the size of the blockchain database was becoming annoying - it's [currently 52 GB](https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size) and always gets bigger. If you can spare the space, there's no problem with actually doing it.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: thanks! 52GB is a little big for my hard drive! maybe I'll try on another device though.  
> **username_3**: Note that there's a pruning option that would limit your hard disk space usage to whatever you configure. Current pruning is a bit crude (and disables wallet functionatlity!), in the next versions it will be much better.  

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