Difference between relay node and block producer node

Staking & Delegation Setup a Stake Pool
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I’m new to setting up a stake pool and recently I’ve discovered following the CoinCashew guide the difference between the relay node and the block producer node.

reading around I’ve understood it is suggested to those nodes to be on different machines;

now my questions are:

  • there are differences regards what the two nodes do?
  • the two machines have different minimum requirements? If yes there is any hardware you suggest using?

thanks in advance for your help!

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  • there are differences regards what the two nodes do?
  • relays are just simple nodes (public) which will connect your Producer (hidden) to the public network
  • Producer will connect to the network via Relays (security purpose) and the big difference… it will validate blocks (because it has additional files like pool certificate, vrf kes, etc

! Both nodes will process transactions, only the Producer will validate blocks (validated blocks=rewards)

the two machines have different minimum requirements? If yes there is any hardware you suggest using?

Both nodes should have same configuration,

Technical Specification

Minimum System Requirements

  • An Intel or AMD x86 processor with two or more cores, at 1.6GHz or faster (2GHz or faster for a stake pool or relay)
  • 12GB of RAM
  • 20GB of free storage - here I will recommend min 100GB
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