My longtime friend, K3tan rejoins me on the show to chat about various things but importantly, we chat about why Raspberry Pi Bitcoin Nodes are bad. We chat:

• Reliability & Performance of Raspberry Pi’s vs other options
• What you can use instead
• Cost
• Bitcoin node packages
• Electrum server comparison
• HDD & SSD requirements
• Separating bitcoin from non-bitcoin apps
• Self-hosting

Links:

• Twitter: @_k3tan
• Ministry of Nodes Nodebox guide: Ubuntu Node Box Guide 2022 Edition
• Ministry of Nodes Consulting
• Article: My Home Lab
• Craig Raw’s blog post on electrum server performance
• Prior episode: SLP315 k3tan – Networking For Bitcoiners

Sponsors:

• Swan Bitcoin
• Mempool.space
• Bitbo
• Braiins.com
• Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
• CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

Stephan Livera links:

• Follow me on Twitter @stephanlivera
• Subscribe to the podcast
• Patreon @stephanlivera