diff --git a/docs/liquid/liquid-part1.md b/docs/liquid/liquid-part1.md index 7af742e..9be6e46 100644 --- a/docs/liquid/liquid-part1.md +++ b/docs/liquid/liquid-part1.md @@ -65,10 +65,11 @@ Liquid uses a variation of BTC Core program known as Elements, much of the setup *If you are intending to run Liquid on a bare-metal setup, please refer to this [getting started guide](https://elementsproject.org/elements-code-tutorial/working-environment) to setup your environment* -### Running Elements on Umbrel +### Running Elements on Umbrel +* Meet requirements (25GB disk / >8GB RAM[^1]) * Install Bitcoin 'App' * Install Elements 'App' -* ssh into umbrel and install the elements-cli programs [^1] +* ssh into umbrel and install the elements-cli programs [^2] - `ssh umbrel.local` - `$ wget https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements/releases/download/elements-23.2.1/elements-23.2.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz` - `$ tar xf elements-23.2.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz` @@ -92,7 +93,8 @@ Liquid uses a variation of BTC Core program known as Elements, much of the setup Footnotes: -[^1]: It may be possible to run the `elements-cli` command without installing it separately, however I could not find it in the container. Anyway, the download of elements node is quite small and it communicates via localport on Umbrel, so this works fine. +[^1]: RAM usage is higher than BTC due to Confidential Transactions +[^2]: It may be possible to run the `elements-cli` command without installing it separately, however I could not find it in the container. Anyway, the download of elements node is quite small and it communicates via localport on Umbrel, so this works fine.