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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 14 Sep \ on: If I Prune Block Storage While Running Knots Node, Can I Connect My Sparrow? bitcoin_Mining
No. That node is only for your pwrsonal use.
Think about a bitcoin node as a torrent. Who is full seeding is a full node. Who is just downloading is not helping to keep that torrent alive.
Running a full node that really help the network require some specific steps:
- good hardware
- good internet bandwidth to SHARE and usually with clearnet IP. Tor nodes are kind of unreliable
- open ports to share more than 8 connectiions
- a good size for mempool
All those umbrel, RPis nodes even that are syncing full chain are kind of not "helping the network". Are useful only for their own runners.
To answr your question about Sparrow, yes you can use Sparrow with a pruned nodd perfectly fine. I vould say thus: prune your node with the date you create your wallet.
To add something more to this: there's a lot going on behind the scenes of a full node.
And here is explained in details:
https://developer.bitcoin.org/devguide/p2p_network.html
To point out again: all those saying that are running an "Umbrel node to help the network" (with whatever node software) are just virtue signaling, not helping at all the network.
When you will open the (default) port 8333 for seeding more than 8 connections and run your node with 100 GB mempool, let's see if your shity RPi Umbrel node can handle it. Because that is a real bitcoin node that will help the network.
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