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About to decommission my simple Raspberry Pi 4 - 8GB due to utter bullshit. For the Start9 DIY’ers you understood there was a few affordable options to run StartOS and a Bitcoin Stack. Time expired on the latter. Since the spam, since the bloat… the simple solution to node running is becoming obsolete. At this rate we will be talking 4TB hard drives, juicy CPU’s and a higher demand on your local internet provider for initial downloads and every day operation in the years to come. All of which is not conducive to node network growth. When I price out building my own node for the future, let’s say 10 years time the cost is expensive. I get that technology demand is a thing. I get that change is inevitable and blockchain growth will lead to a larger initial download but why wouldn’t everything we do as a network of plebs focus on the lowest common denominator, the lowest barrier of entry. Simply put… node running will not be for the poors. The profit of VC’s, spammers, scammers, dishonorable miners and overall bad actors in Bitcoin will have a trade off…. The node network. We can do better. 🫡 -End of Rant- image View quoted note →

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About to decommission my simple Raspberry Pi 4 - 8GB due to utter bullshit. For the Start9 DIY’ers you understood there was a few affordable options to run StartOS and a Bitcoin Stack. Time expired on the latter. Since the spam, since the bloat… the simple solution to node running is becoming obsolete. At this rate we will be talking 4TB hard drives, juicy CPU’s and a higher demand on your local internet provider for initial downloads and every day operation in the years to come. All of which is not conducive to node network growth. When I price out building my own node for the future, let’s say 10 years time the cost is expensive. I get that technology demand is a thing. I get that change is inevitable and blockchain growth will lead to a larger initial download but why wouldn’t everything we do as a network of plebs focus on the lowest common denominator, the lowest barrier of entry. Simply put… node running will not be for the poors. The profit of VC’s, spammers, scammers, dishonorable miners and overall bad actors in Bitcoin will have a trade off…. The node network. We can do better. 🫡 -End of Rant- image View quoted note →
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10 years down the road from now.. your node needs to accommodate up to about 200GB of growth since segwit, so you will need 2TB more than now if you don't plan to upgrade any in those 10 years. It's rare to run systems that long without an upgrade, but it sure is nice to know you can do it on a 4TB drive. So your total node price is gonna be in the ballpark of $500 in today's prices. I upgraded last year from a rpi 4 8gb to a refurbished Dell optiplex and only put 2tb in it, knowing I'd upgrade to 4tb or 8tb in a few more years when prices come down more.