From 353855425d610c8edb35a8946a6e36cb2df883ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ivan FB <128452529+Ivansete-status@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 09:56:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md

Add warning stating that node may take some time to be ready the first time it runs.
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 README.md | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ab3e894..6886515 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -38,10 +38,11 @@ Note that if you just want to relay traffic (not publish), you don't need one.
 
 **🖥️ 2. Start your node**
 
-Start all processes: nwaku node, database and grafana for metrics. Your RLN membership is loaded into nwaku under the hood.
+Start all processes: nwaku node, database and grafana for metrics. Your [RLN](https://rate-limiting-nullifier.github.io/rln-docs/what_is_rln.html) membership is loaded into nwaku under the hood.
 ```console
 docker-compose up -d
 ```
+⚠️ The node might take ~5' the very first time it runs because it needs to build locally the RLN community membership tree.
 
 **🏄🏼‍♂️ 3. Interact with your nwaku node**
 * See [http://localhost:3000/d/yns_4vFVk/nwaku-monitoring](http://localhost:3000/d/yns_4vFVk/nwaku-monitoring) for node metrics.