Ethereum node runners and Bitcoin Lightning node runners in centralized shambles today.
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What.
Bitcoiners love to dunk on Ethereum bozos for using cloud hosting for most of their nodes, clearly not looking at where a majority of the Lightning nodes and liquidity is running.
BRO JUST RUN IT ON A RASPBERRYPI4 BRO.
I got my Refurbished dell for like $75-100
Yeah, running on an old desktop or laptop is infinity better than a raspberry pi.
YEAH MAYBE BUT EVEN A SHITTY RASPERBRRY PI 4 WORKS COMPARED TO AWS LOL.
Old pc is the way to go. Laptops even have a battery so it's like a built in UPS.
My lightning node is even pruned and the drive is just what came with it. 250-500 GB but I don't even remember b/c it doesn't matter.
Oughta teach them.
🧐 🤔
AWS has been angry most of the morning.
Oh that. Yes? I didn’t think about that affecting anyone’s personal node because mine is in my basement.
Self sovereignty isn't on a cloud...
It's kind of sad to see really, especially since Bitcoiners love to shit on Ethereum Bros for too much cloud usage.
THEM: but what if they ban Bitcoin?
ME: In order to effect a ban on Bitcoin, they would have to take down the entire Internet.
THEM: you were saying...
ME: 😟
running a node in your home mostly fixes this :)
Yes - with regard to AWS going down. Of course, in the unlikely event that 'they' actually took down the entire Internet, it would be a different story.
Is that even possible?
Also, this is why prepping is an appropriate "handcuff" to Bitcoin.
Possible; but, not really plausible, IMO (except for maybe incidentally as a result of nuclear war or something like that).
Regardless, 'prepping' for it means a lot more than just running a node.
Is it that time of the year to upload the AWS fud?
Source? I made it up. Provide sauce or context my guy.
Yeah, but ETH runs its first layer on it, while Bitcoin’s LN is just a second layer — and it’s centralized by design 🤷🏻♂️
I’d be happier (and LN would be healthier) if everyone ran their own node — but we’re making progress.