I installed five cryptocurrency wallets simultaneoulsy, and now I can compare memory usage.
- CPU Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz (2 cores)
- RAM: 4 Gb RAM
- OS: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
- uname -a: Linux 4.15.0-45-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 29 16:28:13 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
- Date: 25th of February 2019
All settings is by default. Wallets are downloaded from official repositories of ubuntu reporitories (if exists). And synced from zero (yes, bitcoin too, several weeks). I run only wallet daemons.
Memory consumption
- bitcoind 21.1 % (864 Mb)
- litecoind 16.2 % (663 Mb)
- gridcoinresearchd 34.4 % (1409 Mb)
- stronghandsd 10.8 % (442 Mb)
- dogecoind eats all my memory, I stopped it at 75 % (3072 Mb). Bad boy!
If you know how to reduce dogecoind memory consuption - let me know.
Disk usage (with blockchain)
- bitcoind 222 Gb
- litecoind 23 Gb
- gridcoinresearchd 2.9 Gb
- stronghandsd 1.4 Gb
- dogecoind (not synced yet) 16 Gb
Wallets
All wallets also have web interfaces and RPC. Each wallet is separated from others, and require separate registration. Also I don't recommend you store you coins here, only required minimum for RPC.
Gridcoin is an open source
cryptocurrency (Ticker: GRC) which securely rewards volunteer computing performed upon the
BOINC platform in a decentralized manner on top of
proof of stake.
BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is a distributed Internet platform launched beginning of 2002 and rewards participants with credits for performed work. BOINC is an application available for multiple Operating Systems and utilises the unused CPU and GPU cycles on computers to perform scientific work.
