Rich Nost on Nostr: I don't see a lot of people talking about running nodes on commodity hardware ...
I don't see a lot of people talking about running nodes on commodity hardware anymore. At the meetups, people tell me how "expensive" it is to get a node, thinking they have to buy some custom 12th gen i7 microPC and a support license they will probably never leverage anyways.
Four and a half years ago, this raspberry pi 4 (8gb) + external HDD was sufficient for an enthusiast to be up and running with a full, archival, indexed bitcoin+lightning node within a couple days.
Let's see how long it takes in 2025.
Published at
2025-05-27 04:24:00 UTCEvent JSON
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