I have a rasp pi from an old project I can use. I want to try a beaglebone black though. Those are available not sure if they are underpowered or why no one uses those for nodes. People don't like command line only maybe?
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If i found the right board then yeah thats really underpowered for a node.
Have you looked into rockpro's at all?
I had not. Those are nice. If you were to ballpark it. What is the minimum processing power and ram needed to run a node? I'd like to drive the power consumption down eventually.
But, either way I think I gonna order a RockPro64 4GB to play around with. Then maybe experiment to see how the cheaper less performance SBC from them hold up. Their hardware is a large step up from the BBB at similar price points.