569 sats \ 3 replies \ @nout 30 May 2023 \ on: Umbrel is getting into hardware bitcoin
I was actually looking into making similar home media device that's really small and transferable. 600 is not that bad in that respect. The ones that are the most promising are MeLE devices and I was thinking about putting Umbrel OS on there anyway.
Like this one https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TGN1MWV . But consider you also need to buy 2TB SSD.
I ran umbrel on a mele quieter 3 ($250) and and extra 1tb ssd. Runs great. Not to bash the initiative, but it needs to have some pretty special hardware to warrant the price.
For example, it could use chips with open source firmware, or guarantee chain of production is outside of china, etc. Bitcoiners would pay more for that I think.
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I've used Intel NUC's and currently an Asus Mini PC with an AMD Ryzen, all of them cost just a few hundred dollars including SSD and RAM, and had zero issues running both Umbrel and Start9.
And yes even tried out running Start9 on a Raspberry Pi. No issue there either.
Definitely don't need expensive hardware.
For example, it could use chips with open source firmware, or guarantee chain of production is outside of china, etc. Bitcoiners would pay more for that I think.
This is exactly what they should do, but given Umbrel itself isn't even FOSS, I don't have high hopes they will.
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I run Odroid HC4 at home, it has two SATA slots, so data can be mirrored, important for Lightning Network. https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc4/
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