Hey,
I recently saw that the release of Raspberry Pi 5 is fast approaching. From what the manufacturer shows, the new microcomputer is expected to have quite powerful specifications and is expected to cost not much. I wonder if such a microcomputer could be an interesting solution for setting up an LN Node. Why? It is cheap, quite efficient and consumes little power. What do you guys think? Let us know in the comments 😉
747 sats \ 1 reply \ @nikotsla 6 Oct 2023
I will avoid this hardware to a LN node, it's much cheaper an old notebook or some NUC, best value/cost relation. For a personal LN node, with private channels and no routing features, it could work, but with a lot of services, like Electrum/CoinJoin/Tor/I2P and others... it's going to have a hard time.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @momboteq OP 6 Oct 2023
cheap HP terminal is great under the server so it will probably also work well as an LN Node
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523 sats \ 1 reply \ @edulopesf 6 Oct 2023
I'd wait a little longer and wait for others to do the experiment... I don't think it's a huge improvement from Pi4 in terms of use for LN Nodes... But I might be wrong...
I also want to setup a public node as well a BTCPay Server...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @momboteq OP 7 Oct 2023
yeah, I would also wait until someone buys it, tests it, and tells me if it's the right thing to set up a Node
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @jtwoodhouse 6 Oct 2023
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @momboteq OP 7 Oct 2023
So what do you recommend at a similar price? I only know of an HP terminal that I can buy for $50 and it's pretty great after minor upgrades?
RPI is also used to create various types of IoT and automation
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bullen 6 Oct 2023
IDK but I'll try. Will add it to my smol RPI cluster if it doesn't work out the way i want it to. Learning by failing!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @momboteq OP 7 Oct 2023
okay
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