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I have a Raspberry Pi 4. I'm going to get a 1tb hard drive to plug in to it.

I want to run a BTC and/or LN node.

Someone on Stacker suggested Start9. Yet I've only ever heard of Umbrel.

I want something that is, in order:

1) Easy to use. Not overly technical.

2) As minimal trust as possible.

Thoughts, comments?

#AskNostr #RaspberryPi #Nodes #SelfHosting #Server
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hongumart 2y ago

I use an umbrel with that same setup. Very easy to use and set up. Never used start 9 but big fan of umbrel.

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nobody 2y ago

Ok sweet. This is a newb question, but do you constantly sync the Bitcoin Blockchain block by block, or do you do it on a specified schedule like once a day? Do node runners have a preference?

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hongumart 2y ago

It takes a long time to sync from the beginning of the chain but after that just updates on own as new blocks are mined while you have it on. If you do a lightning node it will use your bitcoin node (umbrel uses core).

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hongumart 2y ago

You really don’t have to do anything as far as the bitcoin node after you install on umbrel and sync. Will do everything automatically after that.