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Pro: it's faster than electrum, especially if you have a long wallet history with plenty of transactions (spent or unspent)

Con: I've heard it doesn't like unexpected shutdowns, like power outage.

More info if you want a deep dive:

https://www.sparrowwallet.com/docs/server-performance.html

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Keith Mukai 1y ago

Its index is so f'n fragile. If it gets corrupted by a power outage, you have to do the long reindexing from scratch.

Absolutely need a UPS for whatever machine it's on and automated nightly backups.

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mike 1y ago

I got a UPS for nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm hub which kept breaking after one of our regular village power outages.