Not very often. maybe seen it drop twice in the last year. I have my mempool in a browser window on a monitor that I use for that, music player, sometimes bitcoin chart, but not much else, so I might notice if it was down. But I might not, if it recovers gracefully. I think it may have failed to recover once in the last year, and needed me to reboot it, or at least recovered after I rebooted it. So, stable enough for my purposes. It's there if I need to make a transaction with my Sparrow wallet. I can watch Tick Tock Next Block, one my favorite shows. Good deal.
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Hm. You seem to be in the minority. Is there a UPS sitting behind it?
Nope. I think a big difference is that I am not worried about lightning services. lnd might be dropping out all over the place, but I wouldn't notice, unless it also drops electrs. I think lnd is technically supposed to be running on it, but there's no channels, zero balance in the ln wallet, no need for it to actually do anything.
So I had RTL installed on there. Opened it up, it says it can't connect to LND server, so chances are, LND is down. Sparrow is connecting to my private electrum server just fine, so that appears to be working, and balances are current. I even have an electrum wallet with some random small balances in it, and that shows up fine in Sparrow.
So, good enough for me. I don't need to run lnd on my node for anything I'm doing right now. If I did, maybe I would choose something better than an rpi.
I have quite a bit of experience with friends not being able to keep theirs powered without faults, so I like to harp on rpi’s because of that. Glad it’s not afflicting you. Wondering what the difference is though.
I’d be interested to know block validation time vs traditional CPUs too. I’m sure it’s still keeping up fine & maybe needs an extra 200% time to complete, but if that took over 45 seconds I’d be surprised.
Do you know how to look that up? Making a mental note to circle back to that later.
My biggest limiting factor when syncing was storage speed. I started with a USB drive that was really slow (hadn't thought that through at the time), and took almost a month to sync. Then decided to go to a M.2, and I payed attention to speeds advertised. I was able to do a full sync including my electrum sync in about 2 days.
After that, I guess as long as it can validate a block in less than 10 minutes, we're good!
Lol ya that’ll hurt. Flash drives and sd cards are gonna rek so many. Backup habits will be learned through pain with their failure rate too.
I was wondering which proposals will cause validation time to get nutty. So far from what I’ve seen it’s nbd. Just wondering tho.