My longtime friend, K3tan rejoins me on the show to chat about various things but importantly, we chat about why Raspberry Pi Bitcoin Nodes are bad. We chat:
- Reliability & Performance of Raspberry Pi’s vs other options
- What you can use instead
- Cost
- Bitcoin node packages
- Electrum server comparison
- HDD & SSD requirements
- Separating bitcoin from non-bitcoin apps
- Self-hosting
Links:
- Twitter: @_k3tan
- Ministry of Nodes Nodebox guide: Ubuntu Node Box Guide 2022 Edition
- Ministry of Nodes Consulting
- Article: My Home Lab
- Craig Raw’s blog post on electrum server performance
- Prior episode: SLP315 k3tan – Networking For Bitcoiners
Sponsors:
- Swan Bitcoin
- Mempool.space
- Bitbo
- Braiins.com
- Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
- CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)
Stephan Livera links:
- Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera
- Subscribe to the podcast
- Patreon @stephanlivera