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The biggest benefits of running a node is you don't leak your xpub or depend on anyone else to make transactions

Validating transactions is secondary because realistically you can use dozens of block explorers for that

In practice this means you'll get 80% of the benefit running a pruned node on your existing device

No need to blast big money on dedicated hardware, just install Bitcoin core on your PC and prune it to 2000 blocks
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Good Life Seek 11mo ago

Another angle to also consider, I'm doing this, is to run a Bitcoin node on a cloud virtual machine.

I do this on vultr .com cloud provider.

On a $10 a month VM.

A pruned node.

With this, I don't have to keep my PC at home running at all times.

Plus, I can run some other apps 24/7 on my VM.

Ofc, with cloud I'm KYC-ed, but, so be it.

Pros and cons.

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