Do you have to run a full Bitcoin node to run a lightning node? Not looking forward to syncing for 3 days.
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You can prune the timechain.
But would be nice to have it all to see the whole history of this.
Your 🍀 if you can sync that quick took me 10 days on an old Lenovo!
https://github.com/nbd-wtf/trustedcoin this works.
Its pretty important
Recommended, have run into problems with neutrino before. Maybe fixed now but 🤷🏻♂️
If the only aversion to a full sync is to the time, just do it. Once it’s done you’ll be glad you did.
Realize that you can do the sync at one location (with a fast connection) and then move to your normal/preferred location. Even just using an Ethernet connection to your router instead of wifi makes a big difference.
Catchup syncing goes fast.
simple trick to speed it up is to put the chainstate dir on a ramdisk. but don't forget to put it on real storage once you're done