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I'll zap 1000 sats to anyone who gives me ONE reason/argument as to why we still can't have #bitcoin Core (or any other node implementation) on our phones in 2025.

🔹Smartphones are far more powerful than Raspberry Pi's or old laptops.

🔹Many of us already have cheap, unlimited 5G data plan and bandwidth.

🔹A 10GB pruned node is enough for 99.99% of people. You don't need all the block data from the past 15 years...

🔹Initial syncing speeds can already be dramatically increased with snapshots of pre-synced timechain data (see jaonoctus project).

🔹The node doesn't need to be always online, just when you're moving uxtos, it can quickly sync to the latest block, so battery is not an issue.

Ronin 8mo ago 💬 2

using in your daily smartphone i dont think its pratical, android kills all tasks in the background, and even if you only put it back on when making a tx you will wait forever imo. but using an old phone always plugged in at home is a good option imo. Also people think they need a dedicated server for a node, you can run it on your daily personal laptop.

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Skipper 8mo ago 💬 1

The phone doesn't have to be plugged, the node doesn't have to be running 24/7. You only turn on the node when you will make a transaction, itcan sync to the latest block quickly enough.

Jose Sammut 8mo ago

If it's not synced it can't relay and if it's not going to relay it's just a drain on the network.

So at scale, is it desirable?

Skipper 8mo ago

It could remain active(relaying) while the phone is plugged/charging, a lot of apps do this.