This is how lightning nodes should look like!
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The legendary nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 Parthenon has been returned to life as a functioning Lightning node running nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm Hub, and will now serve as the wallet for our Nostr #zaps. šļøā”ļøš
Discussion
Remember with buying cool cases for your node was a thing?? 
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Iāve switched over to using beelinks since Iāve had issues with my raspi4 but Iām still keeping the dream alive in spirit. 
nice. didnāt know about those.
yeah, Pis are sometimes still a bit weak
Running Start9 with #AlbyHub and I couldnāt be happier.
This is the exact one but any mini pc seems to work fine for people.
Does the 500gb work for you?
Yes and honestly most of that drive is empty. Using less than 50GB I think and it only has stuff for lightning.
On Start9 if you have less than 1TB it prunes your node down to the last 0.5 GB of the blockchain. You still download the entire thing but it deletes the old blocks as it goes.
Ideally you would want a 2TB drive and have a full copy of the blockchain but for what weāre doing I donāt think itās needed.
I researched full vs pruned nodes when I bought this and couldnāt find a good reason to not do it. Plus 2TB SSDs are expensive and this is my first lightning node so I didnāt want to spend the money.
Sir TJ is running the same setup
Any idea what the advantage of a full node is?
You have your own copy of the entire blockchain and youāre not relying on others when you need to interact with it.
I asked nostr:npub1yvscx9vrmpcmwcmydrm8lauqdpngum4ne8xmkgc2d4rcaxrx7tkswdwzdu about this when I was on BWB and neither one of us had a good answer.
Really it comes down to the price.
Can Start 9 be used to host your RSS feed or website?
Yeah this is the idea I put forward once, I Podcaster centric start9 thing.
Short answer is I think it's difficult to do anything not in the start9 "stores" with start9 atm.
a lot of future updates were discussed on this episode. Itās all 2 weeks TM but itās something.
Yeah, I have a music side project branch that saves the files locally. I was thinking it would be cool to load MSP on your own Start9 and host all your albumās on your own machine
I donāt think so but it would be cool.
This is hosted on a start9 but that feature isnāt publicly available yet.
Everything on Start9 is TOR or . local right now.