Neutrino is lightning only, right?
(Not entirely sure how it accesses the chain).

Floresta is on-chain only.

Lumor

(I apologize for the super late response, just now I found out about this post)

I'm the author of this, and here's the difference: Neutrino is a privacy preserving alternative to a third-party address indexer. It's a way to sync your wallet without requiring a centralized third party like an electrum server. However, neutrino doesn't validate blocks and transactions, it doesn't even authenticate the filters it uses. 

Floresta is a fully validating, lightweight Bitcoin node. It's like running Bitcoin Core, but using way less resources due to an aggressive pruning and Utreexo.

dlsz

I am not sure that this is such a big/new deal? After all, wallets like Breez and Phoenix already run a Neutrino node on the device. There seems to be little difference between an on-device Neutrino node and an on-device Floresta node ?

bitcoin

Introducing Floresta, a Utreexo-powered Electrum Server implementation

Rsync25

From the article: 

> * This is a remarkable development because it was not possible before. Considering that some people only have a smartphone and not desktops or laptops, allowing them to run a node is a big step towards decentralization. By removing all unneeded data, without losing trustlessness, we are making nodes more accessible for end-users.*

I am not sure that this is such a big/new deal? After all, wallets like Breez and Phoenix already run a Neutrino node on the device. There seems to be little difference between an on-device Neutrino node and an on-device Floresta node ? 

Or am I missing something?
