Check out refurb dell towers you can get WAY more processing power for not much more. I got mine for $75usd
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But then your home power consumption is much higher. The pi4 has really low power needs.
I already run my own node on an Intel box. I’m setting this one up with a friend so he can use it as a standalone Alby Hub machine.
Nice! I think we all started on the pi it’s a good intro to the world of open source and bitcoin.
Yeah, and even if you upgraded your node to better hardware, you can still repurpose an old RasPi to run Alby Hub. You don’t even need a SSD. The entire thing can run off the microSD card.
Nice. Wasn’t aware of that. I thought you had to have the node and LND to run Alby hub.
Nope! That’s only an option if you already run a node. Check the docs, it’s designed to run on all kinds of cheap hardware.
https://guides.getalby.com/user-guide/alby-hub/alby-hub-flavors/desktop
I have one of these things collecting dust and I want to set this up for a local brewer who uses Aqua Wallet.
What OS did you use with the Raspi?
It’s really not in the grand scheme of things. the stability and speed is worth more to me.