Could I setup a #bitcoin lightning lighting node on an old laptop?
Discussion
Yes. Have fun.
Yes it’s possible but it will need to always be on
I’m cool with that, I will be looking more into it tomorrow for sure.
if it have enough resources to run a Bitcoin full node (mainly disk space and RAM) you should be fine!
I ran a full bitcoin node and lightning node on a raspberry pi 4 + 2TB external SSD. High cool factor, felt good to be supporting the network, but it was a lot of work, channel balancing was a pain (and fees expensive), and I didn't have enough liquidity or time to make it profitable. I may revisit in the future, maybe tools have gotten better, but I ended up shutting it down. I don't mean to discourage you--I'd do it again, I learned a lot and it was definitely fun, but go into it knowing what to expect.
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