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This is an easy one: buy a separate box for your node. Yeah, it might cost you $150-$200, and yeah, maybe you want to spend nothing, and yeah, maybe most of your “desktop” use is simply downtime.

But Bitcoin nodes are best when they’re boring and doing little more than confirming PoW.
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Mark 🐢⚡💜🫂 1y ago

The broadband upload speed is an issue would need fibre or the node would hog all the bandwidth. Can get my son to build me a low power pc specifically to be left on all the time. Until then I’ll keep looking at upgrading the speeds needed to become fully self custodial 😎

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cavemanf16 1y ago

I run on a cable connection with only 50Mbps upload. Only issue with slow d/l speeds is how long it will take to sync the 700+GB timechain at startup (or after unexpected power outages).