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10 sats \ 6 replies \ @ama 18 Mar 2023 \ parent \ on: How to set up an affordable bitcoin node? bitcoin
No, nodes don't need to run 24/7. For a while I've been running some nodes only at night and during the weekends, when electricity was cheaper.
Your wallet will still have your private keys, ready to sign transactions to expend your utxos. The node will synchronize the blockchain when you turn it back on. If it's been just a few days off, synchronization won't take too long.
What I usually do is having small amounts on LN or on-chain wallets on my phones ready for quick small transactions while my nodes are off.
Great! I got the point ;)
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I'm glad I could help. It's all a little confusing at first, although not complicated.
Perhaps you could start running a testnet Bitcoin node. Synchronization takes much shorter, disk space is much less, and stress for the possibility of making a mistake is also reduced a lot.
Also, it's cool helping run the testnet and you can try any crazy thing you might think about. :-)
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Good idea. I will start with a testnet node in a VM while I‘m still looking for some good hardware for a real full node.
I've just downloaded the whole testnet blockchain. It's taken about three hours and it's only 31GB of space. I'm going to leave it running on the P4 alongside the prune BTC node and the full LTC node for the moment. :-)
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