I'm pretty new to Hivemind -- or participating in running a node for that matter.

I was looking at the git for it today, and it suggests the hardware requirements are:

Hardware:
* Focus on Postgres performance
* 2.5GB of memory for hive sync process
* 250GB storage for database

I see it says later 'good settings for a system w/ 16G memory'.

Is the storage requirement still ~250GB, and is 16G memory still adequate?

Side-question / clarification:

Setting up Hivemind (and sharing / making public) is considered adding/improving decentralization for applications (if the node is used)? Or does that require a witness/consensus-node?.... Or a combination of both?....

Or is that kinda sorta the same difference as bitcoins "nodes" and "miners" relationship?