The feeling of accomplishment of seeing your bitcoin confirmed on your node is pretty special. I doubt you'll regret it. Which setup are you planning to run?
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Old laptop w/ an external HDD for storage for now. Figure learn up on what I’ve got on hand and eventually if I want to upgrade to a smaller compact node it’ll be easier.
The 1liter workstation PCs with NVMe drives make awesome fast nodes. If your old machine isn't that old it will probably be faster than a raspberry pi based solution.
My old tower from college was the original plan but misplaced a monitor & it needs a serious cleaning. For now older laptop it is