Rich Nost on Nostr: The little raspberry pi 4 node with the external hard drive is still syncing the ...

The little raspberry pi 4 node with the external hard drive is still syncing the chain after a little over 2 weeks. It's wading through the middle of 2024 at a clip of about a month of chain data per day. Height 854027.

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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.